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Bryan Skelton
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“I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such Circumstances, I should have taken my musket upon my Shoulder & entered the Ranks or … had retir’d to the back country & lived in a Wig-wam. —GEORGE WASHINGTON”
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
“eager to oppose Thomas Paine’s prescription in Common Sense for a huge single-house legislature that purportedly embodied the will of “the people” in its purest form. For Adams, “the people” was a more complicated, multivoiced, hydra-headed thing that had to be enclosed within different chambers.”
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
“When we understand people;
when we understand situations;
when we understand what matters;
when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;
when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.”
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when we understand situations;
when we understand what matters;
when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;
when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.”
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“the land of opportunity, where credentials mattered less than demonstrated ability.”
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
“Namely, the very values that the American patriots claimed to be fighting for were incompatible with the disciplined culture required in a professional army. Republics were committed to a core principle of consent, while armies were the institutional embodiments of unthinking obedience and routinized coercion. The very idea of a “standing army” struck most members of the Continental Congress and the state legislatures as a highly dangerous threat to republican principles.”
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
― Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Bryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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276 books
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414 books
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393 books
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159 books
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310 books
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