Billy Sunday

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.