The United Colonies may mean:
- The United Colonies of New England or New England Confederation, a 17th-century political and military alliance between the British New England
- The United Colonies of North America (the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America)
- The United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, a 19th-century union between the British colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia
Famous quotes containing the words united and/or colonies:
“It was evident that, both on account of the feudal system and the aristocratic government, a private man was not worth so much in Canada as in the United States; and, if your wealth in any measure consists in manliness, in originality and independence, you had better stay here. How could a peaceable, freethinking man live neighbor to the Forty-ninth Regiment? A New-Englander would naturally be a bad citizen, probably a rebel, there,—certainly if he were already a rebel at home.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)