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Bernard Bailyn is an American historian renowned for his research on early American history. His works delve into the social, political, and cultural dynamics of the American Revolution and the colonial period.

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“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.”

Facts Law Natural Liberty Importance Victim Prey Transcendent Aggressiveness

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.”

Use Speak Interest Natural Liberty Dangerous

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.”

Facts Liberty Importance Corruption Conspiracy Risen Colonists

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“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.”

People Causes Liberty Vision Standing Triumph Rising Transforming Obscurity Vigorous Sustaining Elevating

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

About the Author

Born: September 9, 1922
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 27

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The Ideological Origins of the American RevolutionRelated source material

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary EditionRelated source material

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