Famous quotes containing the words fundamental, methodist and/or church:
“The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.”
—James Madison (17511836)
“When Methodist preachers come down
A-preaching that drinking is sinful,
Ill wager the rascals a crown
They always preach best with a skinful.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?1774)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
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