Bernard Bailyn Quote

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.


THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, Chapter VI, p. 305. - The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)


Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.