Best Samuel Adams Quotations
- We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those… Business
- A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched… Always Dangerous
- It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The… Always Dangerous
- In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their… Accelerate
- If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We… Animating
- Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be… All
- All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. All
- The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… All
- No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when… Aid
- The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying… Almighty
- A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the… America
- If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of… Aspiring
- Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic… All
- It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by… Action
- He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his… Any
- If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not… Animating
- It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. Brush
- There are instances of, I would say, an almost astonishing Providence in our favor; our success has staggered our enemies, and almost given faith to… Almost Given