"The questions we ask are "What?" and "How?" What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of…"

"We look about in vain for any semblance of the old authority, the old absolute, for any suitable foothold from which …"

"This was what was finished on October 7, 1868- this idea of Cornell University. Seventy-five years later there is not…"

"From Carl Becker's Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers I learned that even the most revolutionary id…"

"Mr. Soame Jenyns, a writer of verse and member of the Board of Trade... In twenty three very small pages he had dispo…"

"Government had not even denied the expediency of taxing America, the total repeal of the Stamp Act and the modificati…"

"During the summer of 1765 the happy phrase of Isaac Barré—"these sons of liberty"—was everywhere repeated, and was pu…"

"Samuel Adams had not inherited poverty nor had he, after all, exactly embraced it, but had as it were naturally drift…"

"Scarce a month had elapsed since the law was to have gone into effect before it was clear to the discerning that, for…"

"No one, in the year 1770, was better fitted than Samuel Adams, either by talent and temperament or the circumstances …"