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"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28167">The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3286/">Hawthorne, Nathaniel</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/new_world/">New World</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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