Orange County Mayflower Society

"All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage."

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

"Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean."

"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."