History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6 Quotes

“Take four of the best kingdoms in Christendom, and put them all together, they may no way compare with this country, either for commodities or”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“To the emigrants it was promised that they and their children should continue to be Englishmen.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“the Ohio company summoned the adventurous Christopher Gist from his frontier home on the Yadkin.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“A deeper interest hung over the region drained by the Ohio. What language shall be the mother tongue of its future millions? Shall the Latin or the Teutonic nationality form the seed of its people?”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“The Mohawk chiefs congratulated their brethren on the recovery of their colony. “We have always,” said they”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“New England men planted on Long Island towns and New England liberties in a congregational way”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“This happily situated province,” said its inhabitants”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“When the Protestant churches in Rochelle were razed”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“At the approach of the formidable warriors of a braver Huron race”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“Men of every rank were solicited to engage in the enterprise; it was resolved to invite “colonists from all the nations of Europe.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“The government of the future colonies was reserved to a royal council; for “politics,” says the charter”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“That Delaware exists as a separate commonwealth is due to this colony. According to English rule”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“These colonies were to resemble the lordships in the Netherlands. Everyone who would emigrate on his own account was promised as much land as he could cultivate;”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“Under such auspices”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“1623”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“city of Albany, a truck-house and military post. The building was thirty-six feet by twenty-six, the stockade fifty-eight feet square, the moat eighteen feet wide. The garrison was composed of ten or twelve men. The fort, which may have been begun in 1614, which was certainly finished in 1615, was called Nassau;”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“trade with the territory between Virginia and New France, from forty to forty-five degrees of latitude. Their charter, given on the eleventh of October, 1614, names the extensive region NEW NETHERLAND.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“After discovering the island which bears his name, and exploring berth channels of that which owes to him the name of Roode Eiland, now Rhode Island, the mariner from Holland imposed the names of places in his native land on groups in the Atlantic, which, years before, Gosnold and other English navigators had visited. The Unrest sailed beyond Cape Cod; and, while John Smith was making maps of the bays and coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, Adriaen Block traced the shore as far, at least, as Nahant.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“With just sufficient difficulties to irritate, and not enough to dishearten, New York united richest lands with the highest adaptation to foreign and domestic commerce.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“his knowledge in architecture surpassed both in strength and durability by the skill of the beaver; bended saplings the beams of his house; the branches and rind of trees its roof; drifts of leaves his couch; mats of bulrushes his protection against the winter's cold; his religion the adoration of nature; his morals the promptings of undisciplined instinct;”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“Their weapons were bows and arrows, pointed with sharp stones. They slept abroad on mats of bulrushes or on the leaves of trees. They were friendly, but thievish, and crafty in carrying away what they fancied.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“The prince,” said they, in their manifesto, “ is made for the subjects, without whom there would be no prince; and if, instead of protecting them, he seeks to take from them their old freedom and use them as slaves, he must be holden not a prince, but a tyrant, and may justly be deposed by the authority of the state.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“In 1575 Zealand joined with Holland in demanding for freedom some better safeguard than the word of Philip II, and in November of the following year nearly all the provinces united to drive foreign troops from their soil. “The spirit that animates them,” said Sidney to Queen Elizabeth, “is the spirit of God, and is invincible.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“Prince of Orange”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“The Netherlands divide with England the glory of having planted the first colonies in the United States; and they divide the glory of having set the example of public freedom. If England gave our fathers the idea of a popular representation, the United Provinces were their model of a federal union.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“It was like laying out into new streets a city already crowded with massive structures. The death of the king was the policy of Cromwell, and not the policy of the nation.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“All great men incline to fatalism, for their success is a mystery to themselves; and it was not entirely with hypocrisy that Cromwell professed himself the servant of Providence, borne along by irresistible necessity.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“These measures were adopted almost without opposition, and received the nearly unanimous assent of the nation. They were truly English measures, directed in part against abuses introduced at the Norman conquest, in part against the encroachments of the sovereign.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“Within the first fifteen years and there was never afterward any considerable increase from England we have seen that there came over twenty-one thousand two hundred persons, or four thousand families. Their descendants were, in 1834, not far from four millions. Each family had multiplied, on the average, to one thousand souls. To New York and Ohio, where they then constituted half the population, they carried the Puritan system of free schools; and their example is spreading it through the civilized world.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent

“I have dwelt the longer on the character of the early Puritans of New England, for they were the parents of one third the whole white population of the United States as it was in 1834.”
― George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, Volumes 1-6: From the Discovery of the Continent