We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — 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
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable… — 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
The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — 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
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
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
