...e battle brand We may not take, But, calmly loyal, we can stand And suffer for our suffering land For consciencea sake. The temperament of the New England Quaker was not unlike that of the New England Puritan. The one could be as cantankerous as the other, on occasion, but when the early Puritan intolerance of the sect had been smoothed away, the Quaker was found to be a man whose ideals were es...