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Liberty Quotes by Samuel Adams
- 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…
- 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 Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own…
- 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…
- 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.…
- The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of…
- [M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.
- If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
- [N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
- Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.
- Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
- 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,…
- Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to…
- It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue
- 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…
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- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton