Settlers Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Alaska, Originals

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

  Ahmed Yassin

  Soldier, Battle, Israeli

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• I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Home, Israel

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• Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.

  Thomas Szasz

  Land, Names, White

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.99, Routledge

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• Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

  Remi Kanazi

  Colonialism, Occupation, Problem

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• I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Government, Would Be

  "A Mission To Mars". Interview with David Levin, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Soccer, Football, Moving

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Jobs, Adventure

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• There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Immigration, Needs

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• The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, Writing

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Mean, Ideas

  'The Grass is Singing' (1950) ch. 1

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