In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

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.

No one knows you better than the one who created you.

When people tell you that you are good for nothing, remember that God made the world from nothing and nothing can change into something anytime.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.