Colonies Quotes

108 Colonies quotes by 85 unique authors

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular… — Albert Murray
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which… — Alice Morse Earle
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than… — Alice Morse Earle
Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from… — Martin Jacques
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which… — Noam Chomsky
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming… — Jill Lepore
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin… — Roxane Gay
The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them… — Christopher Gadsden
Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as… — John Strachan
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I… — John Strachan
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do… — John Strachan
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the… — Albert Bushnell Hart
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. — Albert Bushnell Hart
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of… — Albert Bushnell Hart
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763. — Albert Bushnell Hart
The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to… — Mercy Otis Warren
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent… — Martin Van Buren
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud… — John Linder
New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well… — John Lawson
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly… — Carlos Fuentes

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