Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by John Winthrop

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English celebrity John Winthrop.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of colonists from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies.

English - Celebrity | January 12, 1587 - March 26, 1649

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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

Love is the bond of perfection.

John Winthrop

The eyes of all people are upon us.

John Winthrop

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

John Winthrop

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

John Winthrop

To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

John Winthrop

For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe 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 byword throughout the world.

John Winthrop

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

John Winthrop

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

John Winthrop

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

John Winthrop