We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves. — George Mason Copy Share Image
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country — Fred Trueman Copy Share Image
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
