"In comparison with other men of their time,……" — Albert Bushnell Hart
"In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth."
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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.
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away…
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Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
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Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England…
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic…
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages…
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the…
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of…
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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense…
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The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
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