Bernard Bailyn Quotes

• 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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  Law, Liberty, Facts

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

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

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  Growing, Sparks, Heat

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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• It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

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  People, Vision, Liberty

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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

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  Revolution, Social, Obvious

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

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• 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 scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.

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  Years, Political, Literature

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.55, Harvard University Press

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

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  Leader, May, Revolution

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

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• The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

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  Foundation, Inheritance, Social

  Bernard Bailyn (2017). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.273, Harvard University Press

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• La función primordial de una constitución era delimitar los poderes del Estado, por lo que en Inglaterra, donde no existía constitución, no había límites (salvo el efecto del juicio por jurado) a lo que podía hacer el poder legislativo.

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  Limits, England, Might

  Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• La idea de soberanía vigente en el mundo anglosajón de la década de 1760 tenía apenas un siglo de antigüedad. Había surgido por primera vez durante la Guerra Civil inglesa, a principios de la década de 1640, y se había establecido como canon del pensamiento político whig en la Revolución de 1688.

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  War, Ideas, Political

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

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• What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.

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  Effort, Principles, Kind

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

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  Liberty, Facts, Corruption

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.

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  Men, America, Ignorant

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.231, Harvard University Press

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• Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.

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  Race, People, Democracy

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

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• The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

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  Literature, World, Revolution

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

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  Political, Finals, Constitution

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

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  Practice, England, Interest

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

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  Together, Sovereign, Crowns

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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

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  Mother, Play, Roles

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• The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.

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  Creating, Ideas, Long

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

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• Los detentadores del poder no hablaban en su nombre, ni lo servían naturalmente. Su interés era utilizar y desarrollar el poder, no menos natural y necesario que la libertad, pero más peligroso.

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  Liberty, Use, Speak

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.

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  Country, Army, Mind

  Bernard Bailyn (2017). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.

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  Simplicity, Weakness, Reform

  Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.

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  Gobierno, Personas, Actuación

  Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

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  Slavery, Libertarian, Firsts

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

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• La bibliografía completa de los panfletos relacionados con la lucha angloamericana publicados en las colonias hasta el año 1776 no contiene una docena de artículos, sino más de cuatrocientos.

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  Struggle, Years, Four

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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