Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. (James Russell Lowell)

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

James Russell Lowell

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