colony quotes

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital.Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

- Harold Adams Innis
  'Great Britain, the United States and Canada', collected in Mary Quayle Innis (ed) Essays in Canadian Economic History (1956).

The sooner the Crown Colony system is removed from thesphere of practical politicsand put underaglasscase in the South Kensington Museum, labelled 'Extinct', the better for everyone.

- Mary Henrietta Kingsley
  West  African Studies.

England isnot ruined becausesinewy brownmenfroma distant colony sometimes hit a ball further and oftener than our men do.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

We are becoming an economic colony. America isup for sale.One percent of Japan's manufacturing base is foreign-owned; 2 per cent of Germany's is; 3 per cent of France's.Ours is18 per cent and growing rapidly.

- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
  Quoted in the Los AngelesTimes,17 Mar.