"In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution."

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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.302, Harvard University Press

Bernard Bailyn

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“Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.”
“Every house needs a grandmother in it.”
“To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.”
“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
“The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.”
“Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company
“It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.”
“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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