"Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them."

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Source : "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, August 1967.

Bernard Bailyn

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“I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.”
“Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless”
“I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.”
“Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.”
“In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.”

Source : Source: www.marxists.org
“My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.”
“I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.”
“When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.”

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