In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

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.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary.

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.