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

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.

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.

Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!

Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Lipgloss is my calling!

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.