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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Driven from every 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Beer and chocolate are two pleasures that should be enjoyed and savored, ... We knew that we were up to the challenge to create an unexpected brew that could perfectly complement a Valentine's Day meal or be given as a special gift. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy, and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country of instructing them in the art of self-government, without which they can never act as a wise part of the government of societies, great or small in short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these first, a right to life secondly, to liberty thirdly to property together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 in happy country as their last asylum. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards . . . . We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors . . . they transmitted them to us with care and diligence. - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words - Samuel Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 85