"It is easy to gain a definite notion……" — Alice Morse Earle

More Colonial Quotes

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• In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial… — Erik Dammann
• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
• In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition… — Douglas MacArthur
• Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department… — Paul Robeson
• Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people… — Ratan Tata
• We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth… — Jeff Cooper
• Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic… — Karl Marx
• What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to… — Newt Gingrich
• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We… — Abdul Kalam
• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
• From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally… — Thomas G. West
• The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we… — Gertrude Himmelfarb

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