Top 25 Quotes by Albert Bushnell Hart

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

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

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

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

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.

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

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

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

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

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.