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Rights Quotes by Samuel Adams
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to…
- It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The…
- 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…
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