New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.

~ Edward Pearson Pressey

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We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business.

~ Edward Pearson Pressey

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