Constitution Quotes by Samuel Adams

10 Constitution quotes by Samuel Adams

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Adams’s take on the nation's founding document is concise, underscoring his commitment to civic virtue and resistance to tyranny. Ten quotes capture his steadfast resolve.

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The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…

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Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

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Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

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[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty…

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The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from…

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Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in…

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The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then…

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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights…

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Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately…

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Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that…

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Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…

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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for…

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In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our…

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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

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All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right…

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Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of…

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.…

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It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean…

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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the…

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If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

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