"What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right."

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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.57, Harvard University Press

Bernard Bailyn

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“And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.”
“When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not.”
“Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?”
“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
“I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.”

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“There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.”

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“One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.”
“Strength lies not in defence but in attack”

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