United Colonies

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:

    “Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

    “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)