William Bradford quotes:

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.

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many...

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.

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.

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world

The LORD is the help of my life

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness and His wonderful works before the sons of men.