Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — 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… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately… — 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… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — 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 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
