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.
Bernard BailynWhatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
Bernard BailynThe 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.
Bernard BailynNever had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
Bernard Bailyn