1776 Quote by David Hackett Fischer

“the colonists in Jamestown perished. Of the five hundred who entered the winter, only sixty were alive by March. The situation was so desperate…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and”

— Christina Baker Kline

“By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers’ way of…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I…

— Lauren Hammond

“And while they were in the same place, there came a great mist about them and a darkness, so that they could not know…

— Augusta Gregory

“We are damaging the world more with our mobiles than our forefathers did with their musket.”

— Amit Kalantri

“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers…

— Jean Thompson

“Who knew raccoons were so aggressive?”

— Grace Hitchcock

“When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors”

— William Shakespeare

“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526…

— Saidiya Hartman

“Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.”

— Adam Hochschild

Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in…

— Roger Waters