Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes

American - Historian | July 1, 1854 - July 16, 1943

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

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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

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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.

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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

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The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

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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.

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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

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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.

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