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All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should (Samuel Adams Quotes)
In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death (Samuel Adams Quotes)
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 (Samuel Adams Quotes)
The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought (Samuel Adams Quotes)
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds (Samuel Adams Quotes)
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which aught to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice (Samuel Adams Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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! (Samuel Adams Quotes)
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny (Samuel Adams Quotes)
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 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 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 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 Quotes)
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions (Samuel Adams Quotes)
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 (Samuel Adams 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 Quotes)
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent (Samuel Adams 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 happy country as their last asylum (Samuel Adams Quotes)
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals (Samuel Adams Quotes)
If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great security (Samuel Adams Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive (Samuel Adams Quotes)
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death (Samuel Adams Quotes)
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it (Samuel Adams Quotes)
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue (Samuel Adams Quotes)
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak (Samuel Adams Quotes)
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 (Samuel Adams Quotes)
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections (Samuel Adams 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 Quotes)