4 Quotes by James Lincoln Collier

In Connecticut we had freedom of religion so you could belong to any church you wanted, unless you were a Papist.

It was so beautiful I could hardly keep my eyes off it. “Father, it’s so big,” I said. He grinned. “This is nothing, Tim. Wait till we get down to Verplancks.

Sometimes Father brought home Rivington’s Gazette from Verplancks. It was a Tory paper and he wasn’t supposed to have it; it was illegal, so he kept it hidden. It made me wonder how the war was going to make us freer if you couldn’t read any paper you wanted any more.

But nobody was really desperate.