I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“At the time, most Europeans believed that religious conformity was necessary to safeguard civil order, and they questioned how such a diverse… — David S. Kidder Copy Share Image
Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“My feeling is, the Pilgrims were asked to leave England. England was never funner than when the Pilgrims split, right? The people… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to… — Peter Stuyvesant Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King Copy Share Image
But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“The same wakefulness the individual Calvinist was to use to keep watch over his own sins Winthrop and Cotton called for also… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
![“[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/186/benjamin-franklin-65_bankers_it-was-the-poverty-caused-by-the-bad-inf_699536.png)
![“[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.” quote by I. L. Peretz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9bd/i-l-peretz-22812_army_about-jews-among-other-nations-the-vital_1248478.jpg)
![“They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange” quote by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d3c/jabra-ibrahim-jabra-64018_appreciated_they-arabs-wanted-to-catch-up-with-the-m_259358.jpg)
