American revolution Quote by Bernard Bailyn Download Open image “In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.” — Bernard Bailyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American revolution Obvious Revolution Social Social revolution
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
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… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government… — Njau Kihia Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming… — Haynes Johnson Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“The British government in 1807 had issued the “Orders in Council,” which enforced a naval blockade against France, and with a shortage of seamen… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear: stray too… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image