Salem and Portland were founded by New Englanders, the…

“New Englanders could be so brusque.”

— Cherise Sinclair

“By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers’ way of…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

— Van Wyck Brooks

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make…

— Nicholas Cresswell

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it…

— Carlton Fisk

“The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil's Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the…

— Cotton Mather

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and…

— Elizabeth Strout

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

— Don Marquis

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

— John Updike

“On Salem, you’re right where you’re supposed to be.”

— Kristen Ashley

“She promised you'd get to shore in one piece.' Cheap said, 'and I won't make a liar out of her. But if you know…

— Donna Thorland

“Sparhawk had fallen into a nest of pirates.”

— Donna Thorland

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches…

— Mark Twain

“He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches.…

— Brynn Chapman