Killing the Witches Quotes

“There were no real witches in Salem in 1692, but a large godless community has descended on the town.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“The new constitution, although flawed in some areas, is the most liberating government document in the world. For”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“James Russell Lowell will claim, “The little shipload of outcasts who landed at Plymouth are destined to influence the future of the world.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“And so it is that towns like Salem evolve into hotbeds of rabid religiosity. There is no dissent. The townspeople do what they are told. Ironically, superstition—which is the opposite of faith—is deeply ingrained in the population. The Puritan leadership has absolute power. And, as the adage goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“Franklin would normally spend a withering day like this walking around his home naked, believing it good for the body to let air circulate over”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“eccentric aunt Tillie.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“The Sons of Liberty on the 14th of August 1765, a day which ought to be forever remembered in America, animated with a zeal for their country then upon the brink of destruction, and resolved, at once to save her,” Bostonian Samuel Adams will write in the Gazette. Adams, a local brewer and cousin of John Adams, also coins the group’s motto: “No taxation without representation.” *”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“Citizens must pay out of their own pockets when they purchase a needed paper document.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“But the Stamp Act is the worst. This is the first direct tax levied against the people.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“It is a cool English day as John Alden, a twenty-one-year-old barrel maker and carpenter, stands at the rail of the merchant ship Mayflower, watching the chaos on the wharf just below. He is about to risk his life on an extremely dangerous voyage. What he sees terrifies him”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“Captain Preston loathes the colonists. In his own words, he says these “malcontents” are “using every method to fish out evidence to prove [the shooting] was a concerted scheme to murder the inhabitants.” John Adams does not believe that. He sees a spontaneous demonstration that got out of control.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“One last time, Bridget pleads her innocence, begging for help. The last thing she sees before the burlap sack is placed over her head is the pious and bearded Reverend Hale, a 56 year old pastor grasping his bible as if it were a weapon. It is a beautiful spring morning. The sun is shining. A sign of God's approval. A ladder is put below the thick branch of an old oak tree. Two men lift Bridget onto it. She feels the noose as it is placed over her head, then tightened around her neck. Suddenly, the ladder is kicked out from beneath her. Bridget slowly strangles. Kicking out hard with her legs, then she is still. The crowd approves. They are safer now. But in reality, no one is safe in Salem.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“In efforts to restore us to primitive Christianity, in all the simplicity in which it came from the lips of Jesus. Had it never been sophisticated by the subtleties of commentators, nor paraphrased into meanings totally foreign to its character, it would at this day have been the religion of the whole civilized world. But … the maniac ravings of Calvin, tinctured plentifully with the foggy dreams of Plato, have so loaded it with absurdities and incomprehensibilities, as to drive into infidelity men who had not time, patience, or opportunity to strip it of its meretricious trappings, and to see it in all its native simplicity and purity. I trust however that the same free exercise of private judgment which gave us our political reformation will extend its effects to that of religion.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

“if thou hast but one Tear in thy Eyes, if thou hast but one prayer in thy heart, spend it now.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Witches: the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts