#netherlands

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #conquest #contact #dutch #free

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#anything #century #condemned #draw #each

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands. ↗

— Seth Low

#name #netherlands #states #taken #their

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#denmark #detailed #emissions #germany #greenhouse

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#franks #history #netherlands #the history of #therefore

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#netherlands #territory #whole

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#church #europe #got #his #i

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. ↗

— Otto Schily

#attacks #committed #community #filmmaker #gogh

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#count #countries #day #determined #germany

I was shocked, however, to discover that homeschooling is not allowed in the Netherlands. I could only imagine that after legalizing pot, prostitution and gambling, they had to outlaw something. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#homeschooling #netherlands #prostitution #imagination