Freedom Quotes by Samuel Adams

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

— Samuel Adams

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

— Samuel Adams

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom…

— Samuel Adams

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common…

— Samuel Adams

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will…

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and…

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty…

— Samuel Adams

If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason…

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so…

— Samuel Adams

Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled…

— Samuel Adams

No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be…

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

“[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering…

— Samuel Adams

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct…

— Samuel Adams

'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the…

— Samuel Adams

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the…

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the…

— Samuel Adams

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together…

— Samuel Adams

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or…

— Samuel Adams

'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of…

— Samuel Adams

In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal…

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were…

— Samuel Adams

It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no…

— Samuel Adams

The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty…The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading,…

— Samuel Adams