Bernard Bailyn Quote

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

Chapter I, THE LITERATURE OF REVOLUTION, p. 1. - 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.

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

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

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