They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
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