Quotes About Settlement

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

Fifty-four forty, or fight!

That with their miseries they opened a way to these new lands; and after these hardships, with what ease other men came to inhabit them,

First I will unfold the causes that led to the foundation of the New Plymouth Settlement, and the motives of those concerned in it. In order that I may give an accurate account of the project, I must begin at the very root and rise of it; and this I shall endeavour to do in a plain style and with singular regard to the truth, — at least as near as my slender judgment can attain to it.

Tipu even asked his ambassadors to Ottoman Istanbul to secure for him the ijara – farm – of Basra so that, like the Europeans, he could establish an overseas settlement which would be a base for his vessels.

In the political settlement that followed, Tipu's sons were despatched to exile in the fort of Vellore and most of the best lands of the state of Mysore were divided between the Company and the Nizam of Hyderabad. The rump was returned to the Hindu Wadyar dynasty whose throne Haidar and Tipu had usurped. A five-year-old child from the dynasty was found living 'in a state of misery … in kind of stable with sheds attached to

One evening in October, 1937, Doc scheduled a bowling match against the Italian Community Club, which was composed largely of college men who held their meetings every two weeks in the Norton Street Settlement House.

The town's young parents especially prized this idea of Newton as a child's paradise. Many of them had left the hip, sophisticated city to move here. They had accepted massive expenses, stultifying monotony, and the queasy disappointment of settling for a conventional life. To

He authorized Goebbels to deliver a powerful and provocative speech in Danzig on June 17, denouncing Polish 'ill treatment' and demanding the city's return to the Reich. Nazi editors were confidentially briefed: 'This is to be a first trial balloon to test the international atmosphere on the settlement of the Danzig question.

Baron von Weizsäcker assessed in his private diary, 'The Führer has no desire to pick a fight with the western powers but – so I'm assured – he cannot yet be sure if a war can be confined to Poland. So my own bet is unchanged, that we'll settle for a peaceful general approach.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

History is all explained by geography.

One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane. But the Mistress wanted a collie. So they compromised by getting the collie.

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.

If people have the choice of where they settle in Europe, then we cannot be surprised that they choose to come over here in search of a better life.

Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.