Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

“When you have the solution you become a sought of pilgrim land”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

“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

“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

“Only Pilgrims Settle”

— Carol Durant

“When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall, the migrant soul becomes the all.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to…

— M. Basil Pennington

“No longer mindful of the debt they owed the Pokanokets, without whom their parents would never have endured their first year in America, some…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take…

— Will Cuppy

“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

“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and”

— Christina Baker Kline

“In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“As pilgrims, we're wayfarers who dance with as much integrity, grace, and clarity as we can muster.”

— Mary Ellen Trahan