America Quote by Tom Ford

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech…

— Jim Norton

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

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte

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

— Joe Mantegna

“A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and…

— Edward M. Hallowell

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs…

— James Frey

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

— Sam Levenson

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

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

“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

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

— John F. Kerry

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