Colonies Quotes

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We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and… — Daniel Goldin
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These… — Edmund Burke
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be… — Benjamin Franklin
If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the… — Winston Churchill
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism… — Edmund Burke
In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export… — George Mikes
A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from… — Jay Leno
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. — Bertrand Russell
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a home of her… — Maria Dahvana Headley
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is… — Marcel Proust
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. — Langston Hughes
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. — Gertrude Stein
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its… — Charles Sturt
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.… — David Cronenberg
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, -… — Albert Bushnell Hart
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will… — Gerard K. O'Neill
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies… — Peter York
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. — Will Rogers
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order â€” preferably a system of world government â€”… — Walter Cronkite
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them. — Hjalmar Schacht

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