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Them Quotes by Samuel Adams
- 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…
- 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…
- We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
- 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…
- Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may…
- Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating…
- 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…
- 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…
- If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such…
- Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies…
- 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…
- 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 liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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