Mother Country Quotes

14 Mother Country quotes by 14 unique authors

• The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates… — Frantz Fanon
• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams
• England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country — Fred Trueman
• This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where… — Richard V. Allen
• 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
• The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others… — Gore Vidal
• In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was… — Robert Burchfield
• 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
• A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals. — Fred Hampton
• We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her,… — George Washington
• Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• 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
• A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash… — Zadie Smith
• Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result… — John Acton

Who Wrote These Mother Country Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Mother Country Quotes as follows:

• 1 Mother Country Quote by Zadie Smith
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Robert Burchfield
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Richard V. Allen
• 1 Mother Country Quote by John Quincy Adams
• 1 Mother Country Quote by John Acton
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Gore Vidal
• 1 Mother Country Quote by George Washington
• 1 Mother Country Quote by George III
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Fred Trueman
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Fred Hampton
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Frantz Fanon
• 1 Mother Country Quote by David Cronenberg
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Benjamin Franklin
• 1 Mother Country Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott