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Bernard Bailyn

Datum narození: 9. září 1922

Bernard Bailyn je americký historik.

Citáty Bernard Bailyn

„Bez ohledu na nedostatky, které vůdci americké revoluce měli, nebyla naštěstí zdrženlivostí jedna z nich.“

— Bernard Bailyn

Originál: (en) Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
Zdroj: [WARDS & HONORS: 2010 NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDALIST - Bernard Bailyn, neh.gov, 2017-12-06, https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/bernard-bailyn]

„On the evening of October 14, 1774, the Massachusetts delegates were invited to Carpenters' Hall by a group of Philadelphians to do "a little business."“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 268.

„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.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218.

„The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273.

„The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118

„It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160.

„Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 36.

„Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, sel denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 65.

„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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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 59.

„In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302.

„Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 203.

„The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760s was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198.

„Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231.

„In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 173.

„Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, Chapter VI, p. 305.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

„Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter I, THE LITERATURE OF REVOLUTION, p. 1.

„What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160.

„The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 162.

„The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred; …“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

FOREWORD, p. v.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

„The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought“

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— Bernard Bailyn, kniha The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Zdroj: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26.

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