"From William of Orange to William Pitt the……" — Albert Bushnell Hart
"From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder."
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26 Quotes by Albert Bushnell Hart
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- In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
- As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
- Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away…
- Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
- Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
- The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England…
- The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic…
- In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social…
- One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages…
- The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the…
- The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of…
- The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense…
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