Samuel Adams Quotes

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• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
• Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil…
• How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them…
• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is…
• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right…
• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority…
• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
• The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
• The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own…
• There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
• Let no man thirst for good beer.
• We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the…
• I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
• The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His…
• Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to…
• Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
• And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
• If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand…

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