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It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.


Paul Harris


#come #conceive #did #difficult #dogmatic

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#brought #development #elements #inheritance #most

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.


Arthur Erickson


#achilles heel #americas #confidence #cultural #heel

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.


David Mamet


#american #american football #ball #east #football

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.


David Ricardo


#capital #could #cultivated #fertile #first

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.


Moshe Dayan


#barrel #build #generation #gun #helmet

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.


John P. Kennedy


#eager #every #hostility #indians #molest

After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.


Charles Lawrence


#agreed #attempting #consideration #down #expedition

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.


Bobby Hull


#canada #care #doing #done #embark

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.


Alistair Cooke


#america #aware #become #come #country






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