#colon

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. ↗

— Rand Paul

#action #american #american revolution #call #chief

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#available #cheap #colonies #dumping #easily

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#assume #attitude #australia #because #been

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#back #besides #colonial #corridor #earth

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. ↗

— Karel Capek

#appoint #colonel #god #granted #great

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others. ↗

— Sid Meier

#about #also #asked #century #colonization

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#something #tells #uniform #wearing #you

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#already #colony #far #new #new south wales

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#bind #colonists #existed #i #last

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #conquest #contact #dutch #free