The Quaker Colonies Quotes

“Bribed by both sides, the Indians used all their native cunning to encourage the bribers to bid against each other.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“The result was, of course, the utter demoralization of the savages.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“land. But his sons were more economical,”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“The Assembly had a very convenient way of accomplishing its purposes in legislation in spite of the opposition of the British Government. Laws when passed and approved by the deputy governor had to be sent to England for approval by the Crown within five years. But meanwhile the people would live under the law for five years, and, if at the end of that time it was disallowed, the Assembly would reenact the measure and live under it again for another period.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“David Lloyd, the Welsh leader of the anti-proprietary party, and Joseph Wilcox, another leader, became very skillful in drafting these profoundly respectful but deeply cutting replies.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“In his earlier years, however, Penn had written pamphlets arguing strenuously against the same sort of despotic schemes that James was now undertaking; and this contradiction of his former position seriously injured his reputation even among his own people.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“The Academy of Natural Sciences founded in Philadelphia in 1812 by two inconspicuous young men, an apothecary and a dentist, soon became by the spontaneous support of the community a distinguished institution.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“It brought Christianity nearer to its original simplicity and made it less superstitious and cruel.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“so accustomed to contests and warfare that they accepted it as the natural state of man.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“This migration of the church people was not due to the example of the Quakers but was the result of a new policy which was adopted by the British Government when Queen Anne ascended the throne in 1702, and which aimed at keeping the English people at home and at filling the English colonies in America with foreign Protestants hostile to France and Spain.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“They were the easiest people in the world to get on with if the white men would simply be just.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“All prisons were to be workhouses and places of reformation instead of dungeons of dirt, idleness, and disease.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“His view that an unconstitutional law is void was a step towards our modern system.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“Their humane ideas and philanthropic methods, such as the abolition of slavery, and the reform of prisons and of charitable institutions, came in time to be accepted as fundamental practical social principles.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

“They shocked and horrified even the most advanced Reformation sects by rejecting Baptism, the doctrine of the Trinity, and all sacraments, forms, and ceremonies.”
― Sydney George Fisher, The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware