Colonial Era Quotes

No free Negro, mulatto, or Indian, whatsoever, shall hereafter have any vote at the election of burgesses, or any other election whatsoever

If I were born in the 1700s, I would look like a rounded man.

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn't seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

The taverns were the headquarters of the American Revolution.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.

You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

Latin America was born with a birth defect: a highly unequal initial distribution of resources that dates back to the colonial era.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

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This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.

The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck - served by men in white jackets.