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Quotes About Settlement

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
Elon just presented a plan for settling the solar system in this century that is realistic and affordable. In my paper, 'A Pathway to a Thriving Commercial Space Economy' at IAC, I also laid out a path forward to a growing economy in space that produces new opportunities for all.
~ Bruce Pittman
If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.
~ Dickey Betts
Right now, you've got three days between a trade and a settlement, with hundreds of millions in settlement risk tied up in that time. That all goes away in a blockchain system because you've reunited the trade with the settlement. They're not two separate processes.
~ Patrick M. Byrne
To describe America as a "nation of immigrants" is to stretch a partial truth into a misleading falsehood, and to ignore the central fact of America's beginning as a society of settlers.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.
~ Nelson A. Miles
At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.
~ John H. Vincent
CHAPTER XLIX MISS TREFOIL'S DECISION
~ Anthony Trollope
However, they were of course the natives of the island, and it was the Protestant Ascendancy whose history stretched back to invasion, notoriously that of Cromwell in 1649, and subsequent settlement in the great estates of the land.
~ Antonia Fraser
Would she ever stop feeling like a colonist on the moon?
~ Armistead Maupin
Like the matchmaker's commission, it was the sort of fee that had to be paid on the spot.
~ Sholem Aleichem
the creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man.
~ Simon Winchester
Soon so many tens of thousands of pioneers were going, so long were the trains of wagons, that perplexed Indians in Wyoming said they might themselves head off to the East, believing it to be fast emptying of all white people.
~ Simon Winchester
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
~ Homer
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
~ John Wayne
he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality.
~ John Williams
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A settled and practical people are distinctly in favor of heavy relaxations, placid prolixities, slow comforts.
~ bagehot walter xiv
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
~ Gay Talese
We believe that settlement expansion policies pursued in recent decades by successive Israeli governments have facilitated the process of de-facto annexation. It has complicated the dialogue between the different communities.
~ Peter Maurer
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
~ Frederick Jackson Turner
The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
~ Buzz Aldrin
The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
~ George MacDonald
It is time to declare that the goal of the United States in space is the settlement of the solar system, from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.
~ Rick Tumlinson