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From Quotes by Samuel Adams
- 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…
- The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own…
- 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…
- 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…
- Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.…
- I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and…
- In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,…
- If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects…
- What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.
- Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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