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:Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.... The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is parent of crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land and the principal cause of crime. It is the source of three-fourths of the taxes to support that crime. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth.<ref>[http://billysunday.org/sermons/booze.html Famous 'Booze Sermon'], billysunday.org</ref>
:Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.... The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is parent of crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land and the principal cause of crime. It is the source of three-fourths of the taxes to support that crime. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth.<ref>[http://billysunday.org/sermons/booze.html Famous 'Booze Sermon'], billysunday.org</ref>
He was also financially successful, a point which his critics noted. It was his practice to keep the proceeds of the last day of his campaigns; in 1914, the his eight-week campaign in Philadelphia yielded $35,000<ref>"Billy Sunday Gets $35,000. Revivalist's Share of Pittsburgh Receipts a Free-Will Offering." ''The New York Times,'' February 23, 1914, p. 16</ref> (equivalent to over $600,000 in 2006 dollars<ref>[http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ The Inflation Calculator]</ref>. In 1920 Dun and Bradstreet estimated his worth at $1.4 million ($16 million today).
He was financially successful, a point which his critics noted. It was his practice to keep the proceeds of the last day of his campaigns; in 1914, the his eight-week campaign in Philadelphia yielded $35,000<ref>"Billy Sunday Gets $35,000. Revivalist's Share of Pittsburgh Receipts a Free-Will Offering." ''The New York Times,'' February 23, 1914, p. 16</ref> (equivalent to over $600,000 in 2006 dollars<ref>[http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ The Inflation Calculator]</ref>. In 1920 Dun and Bradstreet estimated his worth at $1.4 million ($16 million today).
A 1916 writer commented that
A 1916 writer commented that