Albert Bushnell Hart

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

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.

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.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.