Quotes about European Settlers

Herbert Croly

America has been peopled by Europeans primarily because they expected in that country to make more money more easily.

Hiram Wesley Evans

Our pioneers were all Protestants except for an occasional Irishman.

Samuel E. Morison

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.

Leonhard Schnell

A kind of white people are found here, who live like savages. Hunting is their chief occupation.

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

There must be in their [the Indian's] social bond, something singularly captivating, and far superior to anything to be boasted among us; for thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no examples of even one of those Aborigines having from choice become Europeans.

In early America large numbers of whites who had been captured by Indians would refuse to leave their new families even when they had the opportunity to do so. J. Hector St. John

Samuel P. Huntington

Would America be the America it is today if in the 17th and 18th centuries it had been settled not by British Protestants but by French, Spanish, or Portuguese Catholics? The answer is no. It would not be America; it would be Quebec, Mexico, or Brazil.

Gustavus Adolphus

Invite colonists from all the other nations of Europe.

Gustav II Adolph. The colony would also exclude slavery, and to make a home for the oppressed of all Christendom. Essentially this was the first plan for multicultural diversification of American immigration. The 30 Years War put the project on hold until after the king’s death and it was not until 1638 that Swedish ships sailed for what they called “New Sweden” landing at Wilmington, Delaware, calling it Christina.

European Settlers Quotes