Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

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.

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.

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

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To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

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