"One of the strongest and most persistent elements……" — Albert Bushnell Hart
"One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them."
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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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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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