Albert Bushnell Hart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Appearance #Labor #Colony
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.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Government #Towns #States
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Cutting #Slave #Legislature
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.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Years #Class #White
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Boundaries #Settlement #Colony
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Land #Events #Matter
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.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Government #People #Three
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Opportunity #Community #Pay
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Military #Two Sides #Preparation
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.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Punishment #Race #Justice
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Country #War #Loss
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Europe #India #Rivals

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