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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

John Winthrop

We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren.

John Winthrop

We must delight in each other, make other's conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

John Winthrop

Whereas the way of God hath always been to gather his churches out of the world, now the world or civil state must be raised out of the churches.

John Winthrop

John Winthrop

John Winthrop

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Born: January 12, 1587

Died: March 26, 1649 (aged 62)

Bio: John Winthrop led a group of Puritans to the New World and joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. He was elected governor of his colony on April 8, 1630. Winthrop was extremely religious and a fervent subscriber to the Puritan belief that the Anglican Church had to be cleansed of Catholic ritual.

Known for:

Winthrop's journal
The journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649
The History of New England from 1630 to 1649
Rules of the Road

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