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.
More Quotes from Albert Bushnell Hart:
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.Albert Bushnell Hart
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
Albert Bushnell Hart
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.
Albert Bushnell Hart
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.
Albert Bushnell Hart
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
Albert Bushnell Hart
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
Albert Bushnell Hart
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Politics QuotesBased on Keywords: settlers, usages
My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Vivienne Westwood
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
Casey Stengel