Argument Quote by Samuel Adams

“One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.”

Samuel Adams

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Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that…

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Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…

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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 earth for…

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In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our…

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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

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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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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the…

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

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