Famous quotes containing the words european and/or settlement:
“Assassination is the perquisite of princes.”
—19th-century European court cliché.
“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)