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Charles Farrar Browne1 quote
The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his. — Charles Farrar Browne · 1866Garrison Keillor1 quote
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time. — Garrison Keillor · 1990H.L. Mencken1 quote
Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H.L. Mencken · 1949