Nathaniel Ward

Nathaniel Ward (1578 – October 1652) was a Puritan clergyman and pamphleteer in England and Massachusetts. He wrote the first constitution in North America in 1641.

Quotes

• He that is willing to tolerate any religion, or discrepant way of religion, besides his own, unless it be in matters merely indifferent, either doubts of his own, or is not sincere in it.
  • In 1647, as quoted in "Free Speech and Its Present Crisis" (2018), by Allen C. Guelzo, City Journal

• The world is full of care, much like unto a bubble,
  Women and care, and care and women, and women and care and trouble.
  • Epigram (Attributed by Ward to a lady at the court of the Queen of Bohemia), Simple Cobler's Boy (1648), p. 25

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Nathaniel Ward on Wikipedia