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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Right
  • Police
  • Dangerous

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• 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!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• 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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Teach

• Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • School
  • Me
  • Interest

• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Fall
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• Liberty means more to me than life itself.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Liberty
  • More

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Value
  • Interest
  • Finance

• We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Liberty
  • Choose

• The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Women
  • Suffering

• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

  

  William Osler
  • Sleep
  • Forget
  • Birth

• Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Opportunity
  • Failure
  • Missing

• 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.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Interest
  • Liberty
  • Dangerous