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

Give credit to whom credit due.

— Samuel Adams

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

— Samuel Adams

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

— Samuel Adams

There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

— Samuel Adams

What a glorious morning this is!

— Samuel Adams

Let no man thirst for good beer.

— Samuel Adams

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

— Samuel Adams

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

— Samuel Adams

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

— Samuel Adams

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

— Samuel Adams

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

— Samuel Adams

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

— Samuel Adams

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

— Samuel Adams

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

— Samuel Adams

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

— Samuel Adams

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without…

— Samuel Adams

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a…

— 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

We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should…

— Samuel Adams

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to…

— Samuel Adams

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom…

— Samuel Adams

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament &…

— 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

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

— 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

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of…

— Samuel Adams

Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves.…

— Samuel Adams

If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty…

— Samuel Adams

It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one…

— 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

“[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering…

— 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

Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately…

— 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

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

— Samuel Adams

But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

— Samuel Adams