Colonies Established

Famous quotes containing the words colonies and/or established:

“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)

“Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)