Colonists Quotes:

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

- Orson Welles

source: Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Film, Colonists, Colony

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

- Samuel Adams

source: Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

topic: Rights, Liberty, Together, Individual Liberty, American Revolution

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.

- Amilcar Cabral

topic: Progress, Today, Made, Colonists

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

source: Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Country, Independence Day Patriotic, American Revolution

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Religious, Men, Long, Colonists

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

- Rachel Maddow

topic: Military, America, Maintaining, Colonists, Financial Burden

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

- William H. Wharton

topic: Land, Government, Suffering, Cultivation, Colonists

The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

- James Otis

topic: Men, White, Law, Colonists

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

- William H. Wharton

topic: Ties, People, Together, Colonists

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

- Annie Besant

topic: Past, India, Boots, Susceptibility, Colonists

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

- John Adams

topic: Education, Philosophy, War, Social History, American Revolution

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

- Thomas Paine

source: The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

topic: Love, Summer, Country, Inaugural Address, American Revolution

By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Kings, Impact, Government, King George Iii, Colonists

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

- James Joyce

topic: Persistence, Independence, Apathy, Colonists, Robinson Crusoe

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

- James F. Cooper

topic: War, Struggle, Book, Provinces, Colonists

The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: Dream, Sleep, Men, Colonists

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

- Jules Verne

source: Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.127, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

topic: Book, Hands, Library, Colonists

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Media, Population, Manipulation, Misinformation, Colonists

The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.

- Joyce Lee Malcolm

source: Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.11, Harvard University Press

topic: Lying, Heart, Government, Colonists

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

- Bernard Bailyn

source: Bernard Bailyn (2017). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.273, Harvard University Press

topic: Foundation, Inheritance, Social, Colonists

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.

- Bernard Bailyn

source: "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.

topic: Ideas, Creating, Long, Colonists

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

- Bernard Bailyn

source: Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.138, Harvard University Press

topic: Liberty, Facts, Corruption, Colonists

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident; ...

- Bernard Bailyn

source: Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.132, Harvard University Press

topic: Political, Finals, Constitution, Colonists

The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Bible, God, Christian, Christian Church, Colonists

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: Believe, Zombie, Believe In Me, Colonists

... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

- Lewis Goldberg

topic: Kings, Taken, Liberty, King George Iii, Colonists

I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

- Salvador Allende

source: Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.

topic: Reality, Use, Way, Chileans, Colonists

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.

- Clinton Rossiter

topic: Past, Men, America, Colonists, Political Theory

I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.

- Daniel L Dreisbach

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Father, Patriotic, Two, Walks Of Life, Colonists

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

- Jeff Cooper

topic: Black And White, Colonialism, Reputation, Colonists, Bad Reputation

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.

- Linda Colley

topic: Military, War, Empires, Military Force, Colonists

The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off

- Eric Idle

topic: Writing, Self, Hands, Colonists

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.

- Susan Meiselas

topic: Perspective, Tourists, Encounters, Colonists, Timelines

Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Father, Struggle, Winning, Colonists, Political Rights

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.

- Catherine Camus

topic: Algeria, Poverty, Born, Colonists