Colonial-america Quote by Edward Pearson Pressey

New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

— Jeanne Shaheen

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

“The notion of a country cottage settled in her thoughts as a watercolor, red bricks, climbing roses, the house the most intelligent of the…

— Robin Black

The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They…

— Lucy Larcom

“This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the…

— Toni Morrison

“The idea of having several days, never mind weeks or months, to relocate to a climate that was better for your lungs or gout,…

— John Hodgman

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You're the state where the shot…

— Michele Bachmann

“Good God, with a bounty Look down on Marion County, For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too, I don’t know…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

If we really want to be the Live Free or Die State, we must ensure that New Hampshire is a place where every person,…

— Chris Sununu

“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

What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.”

— Jeannette Walls