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The Revolution began at the top,—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect,—and propagated itself downwards.

— Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)

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France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)

A happier calamity never befell a people than the conquest of Canada by the British arms.

The Old Régime in Canada (1874)

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,—a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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