Faults Quote by Anonymous

“They were too focused on their own inner lives to appreciate the subtleties of character that might have alerted them to the true motives…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the…

— Calvin Coolidge

They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It’s telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we’ve constructed says that the first nonnative new Americans…

— Kurt Andersen

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

“THE PILGRIMS HAD BEEN DRIVEN by fiercely held spiritual beliefs. They had sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness where, against…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

“The Puritans are conventionally considered more "moderate" than the Pilgrims. This is like calling al-Qaeda more moderate than ISIS. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans…

— Kurt Andersen

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -…

— James Young

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or…

— Rebecca West

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

— Wendell Phillips