 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson, Martha Tucker Stephenson - 1921 - 674 頁
...strikingly in contrast with Governor Winthrop, an enemy of Roger Williams and Mrs. Hutchinson, who said, "The best part of a community is always the least, and of that part, the wiser are still less." Winthrop was willing to let the Massachusetts freemen elect an assembly... | |
 | Robert Luce - 1924 - 714 頁
...disown Cotton's doctrine. Neither Winthrop nor Cotton was a democrat at heart. Later Winthrop wrote: "The best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser is always the lesser." Cotton wrote to Lord Say in 1636: "Democracy, I do not conceive... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 頁
...Winthrop firmly supported the authoritarian principle, and repelled all attacks upon it. He held that "the best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser is always the lesser." In his sermon to the emigrant company on the Arbella, as... | |
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The best part of a community is always the least, and of that least part the wiser are still less... 
