38 Colonies Quotes for You to Enjoy

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. Benjamin Disraeli

Independent Colonies Because Cease

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. Carlos Fuentes

Independence Black Become Heritage Progressive Back Our Considered France Liberated Latin Latin America Backward Indian Triple Colonies Towards Like Looked Democratic Because Were Mexico America After Newly Spanish Republics Barbaric Them Turned England

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. George III of the United Kingdom

Mother Will Country Submission Submit Once Only Colonies Due Left American Means Measures Vigorous Appear Bringing

Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there. Graham Hawkes

Life News Space Alien Mining Promised Fabulous Colonies Put Sterile Mostly Empty Up Junk Flash Ladies Space Exploration Us Planetary Exploration Lucrative Filled Nearly Vacuum

I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet. Trudie Styler

Health Food Healing Honey Vital Colonies Delicious Delicious Food Importance Bee Bees Huge Just Which Planet Belief Necessity

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. Aaron Klug

Physics Someone Colonies Cambridge Go Laboratory Place

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. Albert Bushnell Hart

Direct Colonies Had Feel Occasion Little Resent Prerogative Royal

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. Albert Bushnell Hart

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. Albert Bushnell Hart

Wise Free Settlers Later Brought Plymouth Netherlands Colonies Had Contact Institutions American Dutch Residence Conquest

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government. Albert Bushnell Hart

Government People Three Own Significant Seemed More Only Colonies Had Participation Because Departments England Actually

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. Alice Morse Earle

Sometimes First Year Further Out Bay Log Plymouth More Colonies Foot Over Attic Houses Frequently Built Still Were Replaced Wooden Stories Story Chimney Which Extending Second Two

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. Alice Morse Earle

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful. Andrew Sean Greer

Work Love Book Walk Nothing Settings Seem Colonies Writers Read Around Going Where Either Your Helpful

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool. Charles Sturt

Soil Suited Our Fine More Colonies New Particularly Climate South Australian Wales New South Wales Which Wool Production Staple

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords. Christopher Gadsden

Rights Matter Our Address Neither Besides Colonies House House Of Commons Lords Nor Refused Hold Commons Them Receive

Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American grain farmers and auto manufacturers seeking advantage in the Mexican agriculture and labor markets in the 1990s, U.S. policy has reflected the economic clash of interests of the day. Danny K. Davis

War Day Struggle Agriculture Markets Clash Civil Seeking Civil War Colonies Economic Merchants Advantage Between Policy Mexican Reflected Labor Southern American Northern Auto Grain Whether Interests Farmers Manufacturers English Slave

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. Elon Musk

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether. Jeff Bezos

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment. John Henrik Clarke

World Political State Dream India Restoration Rising Entity Colonies Empire Redemption Without Still Affairs Role Expectations Sovereign Died African Being Fulfillment World Affairs Challenged Her British British Empire

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then. John Linder

Today War Strong Path Believe Other Fathers States Would Would-Be See Colonies Could Taken Since Proud Revolutionary Revolutionary War Patriots Then Fifty Who Fought Now United United States Founding Founding Fathers Thirteen

How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force. John Ralston Saul

People Immigration First Other Approach Unlike Say States Approximately Possibly Citizenship Indigenous Indigenous People Colonies Simply Equal Force Said How Were Years Dominant Very Dominant Force Canadian Same Just Same Things Either Mean Root Europe United United States Things

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific. Linda Colley

Power Revolution Relations Cost Only Colonies Rethink Also Forced Trade American Influenced Pacific Asia American Revolution Slave Slavery Britain

Margaret Thatcher's decision to use Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax was arguably the most disastrous attempt at fiscal engineering since London slapped the stamp tax on the American colonies in the 1760s. Linda Colley

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