All Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes
- In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same. All
- As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss. Constant
- Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal… Among
- Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. Active
- Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. Civilized
- The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, -… Colonies
- The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. Atlantic
- 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… American
- 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… Been
- The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the… American
- The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and… Carrying
- The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. Attempted
- The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. Colonies
- More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. Emphasis
- In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. Any
- Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. Accustomed
- In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general. Colony
- 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… Active
- Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class… Besides
- Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. Attempts