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“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Country #Men #Liberty
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Rights #Liberty #Together
“It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Inspirational #Life #Freedom
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Country #Liberty #Hazards
“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.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Reality #Men #Law
“Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Patriotic #Fire #Despair
“The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
-- Samuel Adams

#People #Liberty #Citizens
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Love #Freedom #Patriotic
“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.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Country #Offering #Voting
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Patriotic #People #Ignorant
“Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Country #Father #Struggle
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
-- Samuel Adams

#Tyrants #Tools #Meanings Of Words
“Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Men #Giving #Community
“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.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Character #Slave #States
“In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Mind #Age #Different
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, Â are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Ideas #Government #Community
“He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...”
-- Samuel Adams

#Trust #Wise #Country
“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.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Religious #Freedom #Religion
“The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Perseverance #Fortitude #Deliberation
“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Liberty #Events #Rebellious
“Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!”
-- Samuel Adams

#Men #Liberty #Shame
“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Happiness #Country #Religious
“I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Bible #God #Religious
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Bible #God #Patriotic
“Let no man thirst for good beer.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Beer #Men #Thirst
“Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Jesus #Dust #Soul
“It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Grateful #Heart #Voice
“All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Truth #Liberty #Politics
“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation â€“ enlightened as it is â€“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Country #Struggle #Patriotic
“The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.”
-- Samuel Adams

#Bible #God #Christian

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