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Power 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…
- 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…
- Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have…
- 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,…
- And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and…
- The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a…
- What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious…
- 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…
- It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The…
- 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…
- 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…
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