Quotes from James Lincoln Collier

But nobody was really desperate.

It was so beautiful I could hardly keep my eyes off it. "Father, it's so big," I said. He grinned. "This is nothing, Tim. Wait till we get down to Verplancks

In Connecticut we had freedom of religion so you could belong to any church you wanted, unless you were a Papist.

Sometimes Father brought home Rivington's Gazette from Verplancks. It was a Tory paper and he wasn't supposed to have it; it was illegal, so he kept it hidden. It made me wonder how the war was going to make us freer if you couldn't read any paper you wanted any more.

If we haven't got time to pray to The Lord for help then we haven't got much time at all do we?