rum quotes

The party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.

- Samuel Dickinson Burchard
  Of the Democratic party. Speech at the Fifth  Avenue Hotel, NewYork City, 29 Oct.

   Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Treasure Island, ch.1,'The Old Sea-Dog at the'Admiral Benbow'.'

'I expect,' he said,'I was thinking jest what a Rum Go everything is.'

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  Kipps, bk.3, ch.3.

I am born of the conquerors, you of the persecuted. Raped by rum and an alien law, progress and economics, are you and I and a once-loved land peopled by tribes and trees; doomed traders and stock-exchanges, bought by faceless strangers.

-McKinney
  A Human Pattern,'Two Dreamtimes', stanzas17^18.The poem is dedicated to KathWalker (now Oodgeroo Noonuccal).