Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony. — John McCain Copy Share Image
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the… — Thomas Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas.… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies.… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“just then a little black ant struggles by alone, alone. And in that moment, I want us to give ourselves over to… — Michael Kleber-Diggs Copy Share Image
Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly… — Fuyumi Ono Copy Share Image
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard. — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin. — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image