With our splendid harbour, our beautifully situated city, our vast territories, all our varied and inexhaustible natural wealth, i...f we don't convert our colony into a great and prosperous nation, it will be a miracle of error for which we shall have to answer as for a gigantic sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Tall tales" were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing... a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd never set foot in San Francisco. Of all the Sodoms and Gomorrahs in our modern world, it is the worst. There are not 10 righte...ous (and courageous) men there. It needs another quake, another whiff of fire--and--more than all else--a steady trade wind of grapeshot.... That moral penal colony of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of indepen...dence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mothercountry. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. When the Dutch, or the French, or the Engli...sh royalist disagreed with the Colony, there was always found a Dutch or French, or tory party,--an earnest minority,--to keep things from extremity. But the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den. It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recogni...zed it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedic...ation and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not to... admit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »