Army Quote by Samuel Adams

“We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.”

Samuel Adams

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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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