As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

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.

Every secret deed lays opened before God.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering America.

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?