The great paradox of Australian history is that what started out as a colony populated by people whom Britain had thrown out proved to be so loyal to the British Empire for so long. America had begun as a combination of tobacco plantation and Puritan utopia, a creation of economic and religious liberty, and ended up as a rebel republic. Australia started out as a jail, the very negation of liberty. Yet the more reliable colonists turned out to be not the Pilgrims but the prisoners.


Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003)

Niall Ferguson Quotes

The great paradox of Australian history is that what started out as a colony populated by people whom Britain had thrown out proved to be so loyal to ...

The great paradox of Australian history is that what started out as a colony populated by people whom Britain had thrown out proved to be so loyal to ...

The great paradox of Australian history is that what started out as a colony populated by people whom Britain had thrown out proved to be so loyal to ...

The great paradox of Australian history is that what started out as a colony populated by people whom Britain had thrown out proved to be so loyal to ...