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
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal… — 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
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those… — 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… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — 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… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of… — 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
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams Copy Share
I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she… — Samuel Adams Copy Share
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation. — Samuel Adams Copy Share
One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental… — Samuel Adams Copy Share
