Famous quotes containing the words national, evangelical and/or friends:
“It is to be lamented that the principle of national has had very little nourishment in our country, and, instead, has given place to sectional or state partialities. What more promising method for remedying this defect than by uniting American women of every state and every section in a common effort for our whole country.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (18001878)
“Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I ammy friends get round mewe chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty storiesand somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. Ive been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.”
—Kenneth Grahame (18591932)