'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

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.

My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest resolution of pure energy we use is the sensation we call “love.

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.

... the final judge was truth -- immortal.

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

I don't want to interact with people but I do get lonely.