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.

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

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

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

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.

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

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