“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”
“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.”
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
“Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.”
“None of us offered to shake hands. There was no advantage to letting somebody get hold of you.”
“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”