Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Buck, Pearl S. What America Means to Me. John Day Company, 1943.
He was making a generalization based on his historical study of nations and societies.
Hopkins was complaining about the fact that England could tax the colonies and thereby take their property without their consent made the American colonists in the “miserable condition of slaves.” Essentially the fundamental complaint of the Americans was this and in a decade it would erupt as the American Revolution. At the same time, Hopkins was a slave owner and yet saw nothing wrong with that.
Vreede wanted to create a Republic instantly. However some representatives of the old regime and affluent conservatives wanted the old laws and governmental structure less the monarch, William V. They argued that this would be temporary until the area was quiet and orderly unlike the passionate operations that was the result of the Dutch Revolution. To Vreede, delay was a trap (snare) to allow the aristocrats to reestablish their power and privileges.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 赛珍珠) was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
