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Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.
— Bernard Bailyn
The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty.
— Noah Levine
Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation,
— Bernard Bailyn
we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it.
— Bernard Bailyn
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
— Bernard Bailyn
at the height of the British slave trade, in the 1790s, one large slave vessel left England for Africa every other day.
— Bernard Bailyn
Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,
— Bernard Bailyn
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
— Bernard Bailyn
A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.
— James Herriot
In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.
— Tomas Transtromer
Man is what he wills himself to be.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.6
— Bernard Bailyn
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
— Bernard Bailyn
Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.
— Bernard Bailyn
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
— Bernard Bailyn
few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.' Tomas
— Raymond E. Feist
many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.
— Bernard Bailyn
it is a fact that eleven million Africans were forcibly carried abroad, more than nine million of them to the Americas.
— Bernard Bailyn
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
— Bernard Bailyn
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
— Robert A. Heinlein
