From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

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.

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.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

There's just nothing like playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's truly amazing.

We may all be sensitive to gluten from a neurological standpoint.

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys