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Quote from John Cotton,


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


By:

John Cotton (more quotes by John Cotton or books by/about John Cotton)


(1585-1652) Puritan minister of Congregationalism, "Patriarch of New England"

Source:

An Exposition upon the Thirteenth Chapter of the Revelation, Limitation of Government, 1655

Categories:

Liberty, Nature, Proverbs, Strength

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