America Quote by Pete Buttigieg

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte

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

— Joe Mantegna

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

— Bill Maher

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

— Anonymous

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with…

— Leland Ryken

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does…

— Leland Ryken

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

— Sam Levenson

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

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

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if…

— Barbara Jordan

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore