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

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.

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.

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.

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.

We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.