I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
