“SELF-SUPPORTING alcoholics? Who ever heard of such a thing? Yet we find that’s what we have to be. This principle is telling evidence of the profound change that A.A. has wrought in all of us. Everybody knows that active alcoholics scream that they have no troubles money can’t cure. Always, we’ve had our hands out. Time out of mind we’ve been dependent upon somebody, usually moneywise. When a society composed entirely of alcoholics says it’s going to pay its bills, that’s really news.”

–Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, 7th Tradition, page 161