Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

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.

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.

People remain same in photographs only

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.