"In some of the middle colonies the towns……" — Albert Bushnell Hart
"In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States."
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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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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social…
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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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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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