Bernard Bailyn Quotes
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.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
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'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.
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It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.
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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.
