Colonialism Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

— Henry David Thoreau

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

— Madame de Stael

“Machigonne” was the Abenaki Indian name for Portland. Christopher Levett, an English naval captain, landed the first settlement in Casco Bay on the 6,000…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John…

— Graydon Carter

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a lot of respect for New England.

— Philip Rivers

“the Welsh name for ‘England’, Lloegr, meant ‘the Lost Land’, I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting…

— Norman Davies

“England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the…

— Gustave Flaubert

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

— John Updike

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

— Salman Rushdie