Against Quote by Peter Stuyvesant

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own…

— Nelson DeMille

“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 is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.…

— Andrew Jackson

From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and…

— Daniel Webster

In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their…

— Nicholas Rodger

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war…

— Rufus Choate

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

“As a general rule the quelling of rebellion in distant colonies means protracted, thankless, invertebrate war. Campaigns”

— Charles Edward Callwell

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make…

— Nicholas Cresswell

In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love,…

— Edward Gibbon

“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted…

— Alexis de Tocqueville