America Quote by Gore Vidal

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with -…

— Hugh Hefner

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but…

— Artemas Ward

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

— Sam Levenson

Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!

— Bill Maher

“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

The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality -…

— Hugh Hefner

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law…

— Garrison Keillor

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte

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

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

— James Young

“But what would cause Yankeedom eventually to be so loathed by the other nations was its desire—indeed, its mission—to impose its ways on everyone…

— Colin Woodard

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

— Eve Ensler