Top 25 Quotes by Albert Bushnell Hart

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

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.

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

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

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

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

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.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

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.

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