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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.
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In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.
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I take positives out of negatives all the time.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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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.
