John Winthrop

“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”

“We must be knit together in this work as one man.”

“We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor, and suffer together.”

“This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.”

“This love is the bond of perfection.”

“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 by-word through the world.”

“There are two kinds of liberty, natural and civil.”

“It is yourselves who have called us to this office, and being called by you, we have our authority from God.”

“When a man is to wade through a deep water, there is required tallness, as well as courage.”

“If we would have things of this world, we must not be inordinately in love with them.”

“True happiness is not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”

“He who is to govern will not lightly be governed.”