Few characters in history are indispensable.

'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.

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

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.

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

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.

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