Colonial Quotes

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members — surrounded by direct examples of free life — always had the option to vote with their feet....Historians have been puzzlingly reluctant to acknowledge this Indian contribution to the end of tyranny worldwide.

Surely there is no place in the World where the Inhabitants live with less Labour than in North Carolina. It approaches nearer to the Description of Lubberland than any other, by the great felicity of the Climate, the easiness of raising Provisions, and the Slothfulness of the People.

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

Many very respectable Characters & Friends to old England are ruined, and are sure to meet no Mercy from Congress.