Cemetery Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

“Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own…

— Thomas Pynchon

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the…

— John Adams

What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over…

— William M. Kelso

“It’s telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we’ve constructed says that the first nonnative new Americans…

— Kurt Andersen

“It turns out that, far from the world being a common genetic melting pot with massive to-and-fro prehistoric movements and mixings, the majority of…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a…

— Mark Jones

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and…

— Bernard Bailyn

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Colonial America was not settled out of a search for religious liberty, but it stumbled onto that principle just in time.”

— Steven K. Green