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Samuel Adams has 95 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the…
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on…
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty…
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his…
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together…
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will…
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
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The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from…
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There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
— Zengzi
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He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
— Ben Jonson
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A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead…
— Gautama Buddha
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
— Gautama Buddha
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…
— H. L. Mencken
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because…
— Maximus the Confessor
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
— Confucius
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Every virtuous man is free.
— Philo
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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its…
— Sakya Pandita
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
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