Rum is an alcoholic beverage that was drunk in large quantities by British soldiers during the Peninsular and First World Wars and by civilians in more recent times.

Quotes

• There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
  As rum and true religion: thus it was.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1824)

• Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
  • Winston Churchill, According to Churchill's assistant, Anthony Montague-Browne, Churchill had not coined this phrase, but wished he had.

• Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883) Ch. 1, The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow.

• But why's the rum gone?.Oh. That's why.
  • Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

• Hide the rum.
  • Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

• I prefer rum... Rum's good.
  • Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

• Making port, where we can get rum and sultry wenches... once every ten years.
  • Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

• "Rum's not drinking, it's surviving!
  • Romer Treece, in The Deep (1977)

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