Settlers Quotes

• 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.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Animal, Men, Feds

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “Little house on the prairie”, Scholastic

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• After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Population, Would Be

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.373

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• 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.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Political, Inheritance, Elements

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• 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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Gun, House, Tree

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

  Bobby Hull

  Suffering, Pioneers, Done

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• 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.

  Alistair Cooke

  Country, Oysters, America

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• On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, Native American, New Relationship

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• The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Alaska, Originals

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• 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.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Political, Literature

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, High Heels, Typical

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Wise, Netherlands, Plymouth

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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

  John H. Vincent

  Home, Earth, Inns

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 206, 1895.

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• The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

  Andrew Johnson

  Hands, Land, Long

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.476, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Water, Pioneers, Improvement

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.

  Amos Oz

  Pain, War, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.

  E. B. White

  New York, Passion, Night

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes.

  Erma Bombeck

  Home, Roots, Yesterday

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.26, Open Road Media

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

  Alice Morse Earle

  Shelter, Firsts, Unbearable

  Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Country, Fate, Civilization

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• Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.

  Ilana Mercer

  America, Courageous, Projects

  "The Declaration No Longer Expresses 'The American Mind'". www.americanthinker.com. July 4, 2017.

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• I was always told that Hoosier came from when settlers in the state, when a stranger came on their property they'd say, "Who's there? Who's there?" So people that were from Indiana were the people that said "Who's there?" But what do I know? I don't read or interact with people outside the Internet.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Indiana, Hoosiers

  "Ask Jim Gaffigan". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2007.

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• In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Dream, Book, Rivers

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (0101). “Miss Bishop”, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• 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.

  Rachel Martin

  Half, Canada, Becoming

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Thinking, Cowboy

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