Colony Quotes

160 Colony quotes by 137 unique authors

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
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. — Will Rogers
Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get… — David Letterman
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —… — Walter Cronkite
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them. — Hjalmar Schacht
The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want… — Zach Galifianakis
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will… — George III
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. — James F. Cooper
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is… — Richard Dawkins
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. — Benjamin Disraeli
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but… — Oriana Fallaci
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid… — Christopher Hitchens
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies… — Nikita Khrushchev
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too… — Elon Musk
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in… — Richard M. Nixon
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as… — Rand Paul
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the… — Vladimir Putin
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is… — Cecil Rhodes
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. — Sigourney Weaver

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