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


'Limitations of Government'; Perry Miller The American Puritans (1956)

John Cotton Quotes

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

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

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

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