A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history…

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon

Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have…

— George W. Bush

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the…

— Northrop Frye

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been…

— Jonathan Sacks

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

— Sam Levenson

Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of…

— Oriana Fallaci

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

— Anonymous

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in…

— Carlisle Floyd

“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before”

— Charles Stross

Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and…

— George Washington

“It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwanted jollity that brightened the faces of the people. Into this festal season of the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red…

— John Noble Wilford

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God…

— Leland Ryken