Colony Quote by Wilfrid Laurier Download Open image “A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.” — Wilfrid Laurier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colony History Language Nations Together World World history
What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial". — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always… — Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett Copy Share Image
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in the minority in this House and in the country, were to organize as a political… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and… — George Washington Copy Share Image