Albert Bushnell Hart Quotations

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

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.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

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 of Negro slaves.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

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 exemptions.