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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

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There is never peace where full liberty is not given, nor never stable peace where more than full liberty is granted.

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Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

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John Cotton

John Cotton
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Born: December 4, 1585
Died: December 23, 1652 (aged 67)
Bio: John Cotton was a clergyman in England and the American colonies and, by most accounts, the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Known for:
  1. Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1646)
  2. The way of Congregational churches cleared (1648)
  3. John Cotton on the Churches of New England

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