Samuel Adams Quotes

Samuel Adams (14)

Birth:	27th September, 1722
Death:	2nd October, 1803
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

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  It does not take a majority to prevail but rather a tireless, irate minority, keen to set brush fires in the minds.

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

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• It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.

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• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

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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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• 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.

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

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• 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 enlightened as it is 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.

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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 civil and religious liberty

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• If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating 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 ye were our countrymen!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

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