#plymouth

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#american #authorizing #before #decree #enslavement

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. ↗

— William M. Evarts

#first #knees #ones #own #pious

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#came #corner #ever #greatest #greatest man

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#ashore #attack #because #bill #bill clinton

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

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#had #instead #landed #landing #pilgrim