National Beer Day: 10 Quotes Celebrating America's Favorite Beverage

Friday marks National Beer Day in the U.S., a day commemorating the enactment of the Cullen-Harrison Act in 1933. After 13 years of prohibition, the act allowed the sale of low-alcohol beer, and was followed later in the year by the 21st Amendment, which repealed prohibition and allowed Americans to once again legally enjoy alcohol, a beverage Homer Simpson once called "the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

But it's not just Simpson who deserves credit for explaining the role of beer in society. Other Americans have spoken out about the country's most available alcoholic drink.

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"We have already been too[o] long subject to British prejudices. I use no porter or cheese in my family, but such as is made in America—both those articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality." - George Washington, writing to Marquis de Lafayette.

"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer." - Anne Sexton, poet.

"Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it." - Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.

"You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER." - Frank Zappa, musician.

"Religions change; beer and wine remain." - Hervey Allen, author.

"There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good People Drink Good Beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad People Drink Bad Beer. Think about it." - Hunter S. Thompson, author and journalist.

"So I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can. I am looking very healthy and flushed and bright-eyed, having both a good tan and a rather excellent fever." - Sylvia Plath, writer and poet.

"God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and poet.

"There's nothing in the world like the first taste of beer." - John Steinbeck, author.

"But then again there's never a bad day for a beer and a weisswurst." - Barack Obama, on visiting Germany.