Bernard Bailyn Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. September 9, 1922
Birthday: September 9
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.
source: "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.
topic: Ideas, Creating, Long, Colonists
