Believe Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do…

— Anonymous

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

— Wendell Phillips

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

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

— James Young

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

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

— Adam Nicolson

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

— Joe Mantegna

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

— D. H. Lawrence

I've always been extremely puritanical.

— Ann-Margret

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

— H. L. Mencken

“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