Adapted Quote by William M. Kelso

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

For much of its history, Virginia, the 'cradle of American democracy,' failed to live up to our ideals. All too often, our Commonwealth still…

— Ralph Northam

Every day we have worked hard to build a more prosperous Virginia, with greater opportunity for future generations.

— Glenn Youngkin

Growing up in colonial Virginia, if you know anything about that part of the country, there was a number of tensions there. Because of…

— Monty Williams

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

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

— Brooks Robinson

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

— Dave Barry

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage,…

— John Strachan