13 Quotes by William Bradford

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

The failure of this experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years, and by good and honest men proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times, – that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.