This early visit to the great Transmarine dominions, and the ties which he formed there, left a marked impression on John Redmond's mind, which was reinforced by other visits in later years, and by all the growing associations that linked him to life and politics in the dominions.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
Indeed the Government itself, up to within a short time since, favored such a state of affairs; for bad roads belong to the essence of the old Spanish colonial policy, which was always directed to effect the isolation of the separate provinces of their great Transmarine possessions, and to prevent the growth of a sense of national interest, in order to facilitate their government by the distant mother country.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
England would have become a Transmarine province of France, it would in time have been absorbed like Brittany.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke