Settler Society Quotes

The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers.

It was highly necessary…and a matter of course, that a good Dutch colony shall be planted and reared here.

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

For many decades the country was very sparsely settled. There was abundant free land. Labor was scarce. The number of immigrants was still very small, and nearly all of them were sturdy pioneers, essentially homogeneous and readily assimilated. There was, therefore, little need to worry about any immigration "problems," and it was comforting to the consciences of our ancestors to keep the doors wide open.

Free lands and the consciousness of working out their social destiny did more than turn the Westerner to material interests and devote him to a restless existence. They promoted equality among the Western settlers, and reacted as a check on the aristocratic influences of the East.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.