Early Modern Times Quotes

“William Penn planned to use this land for a colony where Quaker ideas would be followed. He wanted the settlers to be like brothers, all equal to each other. The capital city would be called the City of Brotherly Love--in Greek, Philadelphia.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“William Penn planned to use this land for a colony where Quaker ideas would be followed. He wanted the settlers to be like brothers, all equal to each other. The capital city would be called the City of Brotherly Love--in Greek, Philadelphia.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“The days of kings and lords first began to lose their brightness when philosophers and scientists realized that the ancient Greeks, who had long been held up as the wisest men in the world, were sometimes wrong.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“Luddites broke hundreds of machines and shut down dozens of factories. To the poorest factory workers, Luddites were heroes!”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“A college boy from Massachusetts named Eli Whitney came south... Eli liked machines, and he liked solving problems.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“...there were three men for every woman in Australia! Australia needed women. A committee in London was formed to send young women to Australia for only five pounds.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“Despite the starvation and the hard work, some of the prisoners realized that life in Australia was actually better than life back in England. In England, they had been beggars with no way to get land of their own.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“And who would be willing to travel through hundreds of miles of wilderness, risking capture, carrying a letter telling the French to retreat? A young Virginian volunteered. George Washington, only twenty-one years old... found a wilderness guide and a translator to accompany him and set off...”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“[Peter the Great] also wanted women to take off their veils and mingle with men at social gatherings. He even wanted them to have tutors and be educated like men.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“Isaac Newton, John Locke, and many other men and women in England and Europe began to... believe that universal laws, discovered through observation, governed every part of human life. Today, we often talk about these ideas as "Western ideas." Sometimes, we talk about the years when these ideas became popular as the "Enlightenment.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“In [Two Treatises of Government], John Locke explained that he had discovered universal laws that could predict how people should act. Every man and woman, Locke wrote, was equal. Every human being had, by "natural law," the right to seek "life, health, liberty, and possession.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“In his scientific notebook, Newton wrote, "Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas." That is Latin for, "Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“Galileo was one of the first scientists to use the scientific method. Instead of accepting old ideas, he carefully observed the world around him, and then tried to make a theory that would explain his observations.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“Newton wrote, “Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas.” That is Latin for, “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth.” When”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times

“Louis XIV had sent hundred of soldiers--all men--to New France. These soldiers wanted to start families... But there were six men for every woman... [Louis XIV] announced that he would pay young Frenchwomen large amounts of money if they would go and live in the colonies. Many young women accepted the King's offer...”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“During [Louis XIV]'s reign, France became the largest and most important nation in Europe.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“[Louis XIV] announced that he would now rule absolutely, without a council of advisors... No French king had ruled without advisors for almost a hundred years. And no one believed that this elegant young man... would be an efficient ruler.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“[The Great Fire of London] hesitated, and it finally began to flicker out. But four-fifths of London had been burned...Londoner John Evelyn, weeping, wrote in his diary, "London was, but is no more.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“When it was time for the king and queen to leave the palace, Henrietta refused to come out of her room. She declared that she couldn't attend a Protestant ceremony. When Charles's noblemen tried to force her through the door, Henrietta punched her fists through the glass windows of her room!”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“This King of the World didn't reign alone. His wife, Mumtaz Mahal...traveled with him everywhere, helped him govern his kingdom, and worked with him to plan out his military campaigns. She kept his seal...and every decree that he made went to her to be approved.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“[The Han Chinese] gathered to oppose their Manchu overlords, shouting, "Keep your hair, even if you lose your head!”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“[Albert of Wallenstein] loved war. He was very tall and skeletally thin, usually dressed in sinister black, with a single streak of red. "[He is] unmerciful," wrote the astronomer Johannes Kepler, describing Wallenstein, "devoted only to himself and his desires...covetous, deceitful...usually silent, often violent.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

“God made this country for us,” he wrote to Governor Grey. “If it were a whale, we might slice it in half. But it cannot be sliced. We will have to fight for the land that lies between us.” Governor”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times