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Bernard Bailyn on Freedom

1922–2020 United States

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What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

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