Quotes About Colonies

Empire was in many ways the vehicle for the extension of British social structures to the colonies they conquered.

I've had indications that there are colonies at work in the world that I cannot even locate, let alone control. And some of them are doing damage.

England. When she entered her self-imposed exile in the colonies, she'd never expected to see it again. Now, she wondered if she was seeing it for the last time. An unexpected gift, perhaps. Or an unlooked-for cruelty.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

It was a Liberal landslide, and a new dawn, with a government of new men for a new age. Churchill's reward for changing parties came straight away, when he was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies.

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.

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.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Toda la simpatía de Adam Smith se vuelca hacia las colonias inglesas en Norteamérica, los futuros Estados Unidos. Explica que han prosperado mucho más que las de España y Portugal porque Inglaterra les dio más libertad para producir y comerciar, a diferencia del severo control que Lisboa y Madrid imponían a sus colonias. Y, una vez más, subraya que las limitaciones al comercio constituyen «un crimen contra la humanidad».

In fact, Britain had captured thousands of Enigma machines, and distributed them among its former colonies, who believed that the cipher was as secure as it had seemed to the Germans. The British did nothing to disabuse them of this belief, and routinely deciphered their secret communications in the years that followed. Meanwhile

Dutch prosperity rested partly on their carrying the products of other nations more efficiently and cheaply than anyone else and partly on their possessing the naval might to protect their own trade and colonies and to harass those of others.

Uno dei motivi della ribellione degli americani fu il sospetto che il governo della madrepatria volesse imporre alle colonie la Chiesa anglicana come religione di Stato. Nelle

The British Empire is a miscellaneous aggregate, and each bit of the aggregate brings its bit of business to the House of Commons.

BRITAIN'S SELF-INTEREST as regards her empire on the American continent in the 18th century was clearly to maintain her sovereignty, and for every reason of trade, peace and profit to maintain it with the goodwill and by the voluntary desire of the colonies.

Adams, not yet replaced, repeated that "the arrogant English were treating Amsterdam exactly as they had Boston." With that fatal gift for the unlearned lesson, the produced the same result - unity against the oppressor, which in America had brought the fractious colonies into their first federation.

Henry Lee's path-breaking resolution in Congress in June, 1776, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent

The people said there might be disease in the cave," said Gabby the seagull. "They seemed really worried. They kept talking about how people can give the bats something called COVID and how bad that would be because even if the bats don't get sick they can pass it on to other animals or right back to people later. And also they talked about a fungus and white noses and feeble bats and bats flying off-kilter and about how bat colonies around the world have been wiped out.

Protests had been heroic, passionate, erudite, and creative. A young Newport woman refused to marry until the odious legislation was repealed. Other female patriots refused to do their part to populate the colonies, which should serve British manufacturers right.

Franklin informed his caller that the colonies understood precisely what they were doing, "for we know that separated both countries must become weak; but there is this difference, Great Britain will always remain weak; America after a time, will grow strong.

His championship of smallpox inoculations for the colonies was an unprecedented public health policy in colonial times.

relatives. His most notable service in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1757 he was sent to England to protest against the influence of the Penns in the government of the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry

reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1757 he was sent to England

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.

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.