"They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did."

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Source : Will Cuppy (1950). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.213, David R. Godine Publisher

Will Cuppy

#People Quotes #Pilgrim Quotes #Freedom Of Thought Quotes

“Fantastically, Australia is still the lucky country. We have the flawed but necessary gift of democracy. Currently there is a debate about whether there is racism in Australia. There is racism in every country in the world. Relatively speaking, we are tolerant of one another. We have a large and giving land and, if you haven't seen its beauty, you haven't seen a beauty precious to the earth.”
“Do not speak defeat, speak victory.”
“Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.”
“I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.”
“I don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.”
“I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.”
“I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.”
“Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber

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