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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 with special…
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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 only seemed…
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to…
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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which…
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the…
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into…
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for…
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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of…
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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic…
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An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the…
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[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to…
— Glenn Reynolds
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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
— Louis XIV
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Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
— Cleopatra
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.…
— David Starkey
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In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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