British Colonies

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“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
—Robert Morley (1908–1992)

“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)