A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

- John Cotton

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

- John Cotton

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be…

- John Cotton

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

- John Cotton

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

- John Cotton

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

- John Cotton

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

- John Cotton

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

- John Cotton