Causes Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

— Caleb Cushing

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

— James Russell Lowell

If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the…

— Edward Snowden

“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere…

— Rebecca Solnit

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called…

— Dallin H. Oaks

“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

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos…

— C. Wright Mills

“Colonial America was not settled out of a search for religious liberty, but it stumbled onto that principle just in time.”

— Steven K. Green