Liberty Quotes by Samuel Adams

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

— Samuel Adams

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

— 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

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— 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

A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power…

— 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

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

— Samuel Adams

In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the…

— 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 in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country…

— 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

For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand…

— 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

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

— 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