Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
Bernard BailynThe 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.
Bernard BailynAt first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
Bernard BailynThe categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
Bernard Bailyn