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
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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
Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
Mark Levin
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
Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution.
Jack Roy
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
Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.
Carolyn Custis James
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.
Bill Clinton
I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.
George Singleton
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