Bernard Bailyn Quotes
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
Bernard Bailyn
Quotes to Explore
There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
Yossi Sarid
In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
Buzz Aldrin
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
Martin Delany
A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.
Jacques Roumain
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
Epictetus
The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
Hannah Arendt
I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.
Melissa Joan Hart
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.
Anthony Trollope
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Tom Wesselmann
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.
Eugene Jarecki
