Colonists Quote by Bernard Bailyn

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

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

— Bernard Bailyn

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

— Bernard Bailyn

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

— Bernard Bailyn

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

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