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Colonies Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the…
- 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…
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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… — John Henrik Clarke
- Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,… — Ronald Reagan
- The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson
- I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies… — Ace Frehley
- 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… — Lamar Trotti
- It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been… — Alexander Fleming
- It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children… — Henry Lawson
- The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies… — Bert Holldobler
- Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. — Kerry Cohen
- 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
- Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on… — Mercy Otis Warren
- And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in… — Samuel Adams