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

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.

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.

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

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

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.

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