Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes

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

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  Opportunity, Community, Taxation

  Albert Bushnell Hart (1918). “Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions”

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• '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.

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  Reading, Wine, Would Be

  Albert Bushnell Hart (1895). “Studies in American Education”, New York : Longmans, Green

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• 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.

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  Wise, Netherlands, Plymouth

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Few characters in history are indispensable.

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  Character, Indispensable

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

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  Government, Eras, Trade

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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

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  Virginia, Titles, Massachusetts

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• 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.

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  Men, Ideas, Political

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• 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.

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  Political, Inheritance, Elements

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

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  House, March, Resolution

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

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  Government, Towns, States

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• Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

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  Cutting, Slave, Legislature

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

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  Years, Class, White

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

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  Boundaries, Settlement, Colony

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

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  Effort, Growth, Resistance

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• 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.

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  Government, Law, Two

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• 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.

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  Taken, Men, Orange

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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

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  Powerful, World, Most Powerful

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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

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  West Indies, Europe, India

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

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  Land, Events, Matter

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• 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.

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  Government, People, Three

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

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  Military, Two Sides, Preparation

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• 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.

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  Race, Punishment, Justice

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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

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  Country, War, Loss

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Appearance, Labor, Colony

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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