Liliʻuokalani Quotes

1838–1917

Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha, called Liliʻuokalani (Hawaiian pronunciation: [liˌliʔuokəˈlɐni]; born and died in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi; 2 September 1838 – 11 November 1917), was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from 29 January 1891 until its overthrow on 17 January 1893 in a coup.

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The cause of Hawaiian independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. (Chapter XLVIII)

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Where would men, already proved capable of outwitting the conservatism of the United States and defeating its strongest traditions, capable of changing its colonial and foreign policy at a single coup, stop in their schemes?

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the habits and prejudices of New England Puritanism were not well adapted to the genius of a tropical people, nor capable of being thoroughly ingrafted upon them.

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