As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

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

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.

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.

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

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.