Puritans, Colonial Americans, Founding Fathers

"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us. 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 byword through the world" - John Winthrop aboard the Arabella

"The ground is so fertile that question-less it is capable of producing any grain, fruits, or seeks you will sow or plant, growing in the regions of Europe a-forenamed; but it may be, not ever kind to that perfection of delicacy, so some tender plants may miscarry because the summer is not so hot ... - John Smith describing Virginia