That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and… — Edward Gibbon 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
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its… — John Noble Wilford 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
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony… — John Sergeant Wise 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
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the… — Vladimir Putin 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
“...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men… — Henry David Thoreau 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
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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