"I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties."
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Source: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9
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