Doctrine Quote by Caleb Cushing

“As the American colonies moved toward declaring independence from Great Britain, the Scots -Irish were all but unanimous in their desire to be free…

— James Webb

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are…

— Paul Harris

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers…

— Chauncey Depew

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

— James Russell Lowell

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

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 Pilgrims thought of liberty as the freedom to do what is right, not to decide what is right. In their view, the persecution…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

“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

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

— Lee Marvin

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

— Pete Buttigieg

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

— Sam Levenson