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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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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In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.
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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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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.
