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" All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America. "

Nikita Khrushchev

" 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

" As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants. "

Jill Lepore

" By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. "

Alice Morse Earle

" Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. "

Aaron Klug

" Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. "

Loretta Napoleoni

" Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences. "

Martin Jacques

" From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion. "

Gore Vidal

" From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingrich was the kind of person who read a book or two on something and would then be quite afire as to how this was going to fit into some shining future. "

Molly Ivins

" 'Hispanic' is a reference to Hispania, the name by which Spain was known in the Roman period, and there has always been strong ambivalence toward Spain in its former colonies. "

Ilan Stavans

" I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. "

Sigourney Weaver

" I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire. "

Shahid Khan

" In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down. "

M. Stanton Evans

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

Albert Bushnell Hart

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

Albert Bushnell Hart

" In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. "

Albert Bushnell Hart

" In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. "

Alice Morse Earle

" It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will. "

Kim Il-sung

" I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers. "

Joseph Monninger

" New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend. "

John Lawson

" Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. "

George III of the United Kingdom

" 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

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

Albert Bushnell Hart

" 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

" The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords. "

Christopher Gadsden

" 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

" 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

" The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool. "

Charles Sturt

" 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

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