Settlers Quotes

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The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.

Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.