Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

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.

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.

Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

I never said half the crap people said I did.

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.