"The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688."

--

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

Bernard Bailyn

#War Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Political Quotes

“I just want to keep working. I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.”
“I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“Drawing is the honesty of art.”
“I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.”
“I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our familiesâ€•but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.”
“If you can't get a miracle, become one.”

Source : Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.17, WaterBrook
“It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.”
“Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.”

Source : David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.367, Spectra

You may also like:

Charles A. Beard
Historian
David Hackett Fischer
University Professor
Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian
Edmund Morgan
Author
Gordon S. Wood
Professor
J. H. Plumb
Historian
Oscar Handlin
Historian
Samuel Eliot Morison
Historian
Thomas Hutchinson
Politician