#colonies

Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?...I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#revoultion #death

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#colonies #confederacy #continued #country #dependent

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #labor #same #system

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#direct #feel #had #little #occasion

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#because #colonies #departments #england #government

This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign. ↗

— James Chalmers

#colonies #his #now #others #rebellion

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#colonies #gonna #human #human race #i

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because