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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.