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

January 1, 1970

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James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, New England Two Centuries Ago, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 188