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.

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

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

'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.

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.

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