“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.” FactsLawNaturalLibertyImportanceVictimPreyTranscendentAggressiveness Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.” FactsLibertyImportanceCorruptionConspiracyRisenColonists Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“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.” LongIdeasFactsMoralConditionsCreatingSanctionsChaoticColonists Author:Bernard Bailyn
