Samuel Adams Short Quotes

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Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

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It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

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

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

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The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.

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I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

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The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

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I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

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The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

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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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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.

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Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

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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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Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

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In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us by the former, for the sake of the latter.

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I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

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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 laws and enforce them.

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The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

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A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

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Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

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If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

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If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.

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Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

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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 or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

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Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

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Freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

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All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

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I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

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