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.

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.

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.

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

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.

If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

I've always been attracted to ensembles. When I started doing plays in high school and in college, I always loved the community aspect of it. I loved these little families that would develop.

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

Why do all balls look like they're 150 years old?