Circumspection Quote by Samuel Adams

“If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.” quote by Samuel Adams — Download Open image

“If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.”

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All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right…

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Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of…

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.…

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It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean…

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A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

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“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”

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Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

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By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

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“Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely,…

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Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there's not a lot to talk about unless…

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When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will…

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In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power…

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It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one…

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The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

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Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

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