Colonies Quotes
108 quotes by 87 authors
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with…
— Ronald Reagan
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon,…
— Ace Frehley
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So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.
— Lamar Trotti
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It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony…
— Alexander Fleming
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools…
— Henry Lawson
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The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If…
— Bert Holldobler
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Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.
— Kerry Cohen
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Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped…
— George W. Bush
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and…
— Samuel Adams
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single…
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of…
— Kenneth Clark
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The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith…
— Calvin Coolidge
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies…
— Benjamin Franklin
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