William Bradford Quotes
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world
Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
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.
