--- title: "18 May Quotes By Samuel Adams" description: "18 May quotes by Samuel Adams. Plus more from Samuel Adams and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48b/samuel-adams-3491_american-revolution_crouch-down-and-lick-the-hands-which-fee_60847.jpg" --- > [Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/crouch-down-and-lick-the-hands-which-feed-you-may-your-chains-sit/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48b/samuel-adams-3491_american-revolution_crouch-down-and-lick-the-hands-which-fee_60847.jpg) > [I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/i-thank-god-that-i-have-lived-to-see-my-country-independent-and-free/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d8/samuel-adams-3491_country_i-thank-god-that-i-have-lived-to-see-my_314114.jpg) > [Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/rebellion-against-a-king-may-be-pardoned-or-lightly-punished-but-the/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/samuel-adams-3491_dare_rebellion-against-a-king-may-be-pardoned_2291515.jpg) > [We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/we-may-look-up-to-armies-for-defence-but-virtue-is-our-best-security/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d2/samuel-adams-3491_army_we-may-look-up-to-armies-for-defence-but_656514.jpg) > [What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/what-a-man-has-honestly-acquired-is-absolutely-his-own-which-he-may/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/samuel-adams-3491_consent_what-a-man-has-honestly-acquired-is-abso_1264439.jpg) > [A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/a-standing-army-however-necessary-it-may-be-at-some-times-is-always/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/samuel-adams-3491_army_a-standing-army-however-necessary-it-may_568372.jpg) > [The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/the-next-step-may-be-fatal-to-us-let-us-then-act-like-wise-men-calmly/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cae/samuel-adams-3491_association_the-next-step-may-be-fatal-to-us-let-us_1304696.jpg) > [May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/may-every-citizen-have-a-proper-sense-of-the-deity-upon-his-mind-and/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/samuel-adams-3491_bible_may-every-citizen-have-a-proper-sense-of_1401862.jpg) > [And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/and-if-we-now-cast-our-eyes-over-the-nations-of-the-earth-we-shall/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93c/samuel-adams-3491_ambition_and-if-we-now-cast-our-eyes-over-the-nat_1390930.jpg) > [If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/if-ye-love-wealth-better-than-liberty-the-tranquility-of-servitude/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae7/samuel-adams-3491_arms_if-ye-love-wealth-better-than-liberty-th_228218.jpg) > [Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/our-unalterable-resolution-would-be-to-be-free-they-have-attempted-to/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dea/samuel-adams-3491_american-revolution_our-unalterable-resolution-would-be-to-b_854147.jpg) > [Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/let-us-contemplate-our-forefathers-and-posterity-and-resolve-to-2/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ab/samuel-adams-3491_circumspection_let-us-contemplate-our-forefathers-and-p_3021742.jpg) > [The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty…The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/the-right-to-freedom-is-the-gift-of-god-almighty-the-rights-of-the/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/samuel-adams-3491_almighty_the-right-to-freedom-is-the-gift-of-god_2093925.jpg) > [It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/it-is-therefore-recommended-to-set-apart-thursday-the-eighteenth-day/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/samuel-adams-3491_be-grateful_it-is-therefore-recommended-to-set-apart_1331275.jpg) > [If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/if-men-of-wisdom-and-knowledge-of-moderation-and-temperance-of/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d53/samuel-adams-3491_affair_if-men-of-wisdom-and-knowledge-of-modera_1276891.jpg) > [It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/it-is-not-unfrequent-to-hear-men-declaim-loudly-upon-liberty-who-if/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/samuel-adams-3491_action_it-is-not-unfrequent-to-hear-men-declaim_259717.jpg) > [Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/before-the-formation-of-this-constitution-it-had-been-affirmed-as-a/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/samuel-adams-3491_america_before-the-formation-of-this-constitutio_2080264.jpg) > [The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/the-eyes-of-mankind-will-be-upon-you-to-see-whether-the-government/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43f/samuel-adams-3491_army_the-eyes-of-mankind-will-be-upon-you-to_2491293.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Samuel Adams > [Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/every-one-knows-that-the-exercise-of-military-power-is-forever/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/crouch-down-and-lick-the-hands-which-feed-you-may-your-chains-sit/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/our-contest-is-not-only-whether-we-ourselves-shall-be-free-but/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/in-the-midst-of-these-pleasing-ideas-we-should-be-unfaithful-to/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/it-behooves-every-american-to-encourage-home-manufactures-that-our/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/all-might-be-free-if-they-valued-freedom-and-defended-it-as-they/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/among-the-natural-rights-of-the-colonists-are-these-first-a-right-to/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/nil-desperandum-never-despair-that-is-a-motto-for-you-and-me-all-are/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/if-ye-love-wealth-better-than-liberty-the-tranquility-of-servitude/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/it-is-not-unfrequent-to-hear-men-declaim-loudly-upon-liberty-who-if/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/let-us-contemplate-our-forefathers-and-posterity-and-resolve-to/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/if-we-suffer-tamely-a-lawless-attack-upon-our-liberty-we-encourage-it/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/i-thank-god-that-i-have-lived-to-see-my-country-independent-and-free/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/if-our-trade-be-taxed-why-not-our-lands-or-produce-in-short/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) > [One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-adams/one-battle-would-do-more-towards-a-declaration-of-independence-than-a/) [Samuel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-adams/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/samuel-adams/#itemlist", "name": "18 May Quotes By Samuel Adams", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. 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