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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.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Country
Men
Feelings
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
Samuel Adams
Country
Liberty
Hazards
Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Liberty
Unions
Constitution
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
Samuel Adams
Art
War
Luxury
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
America
Enemy
Liberty
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Law
Government
People
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.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Character
Patriotic
Men
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
Samuel Adams
Country
Offering
Voting
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
Samuel Adams
BeingStrong
Hope
Freedom
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Truth
Liberty
Politics
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Suffering
Liberty
Doom
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
Samuel Adams
Yield
Law
Giving
A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Citizens
Attention
Causes
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Tyrants
Tools
Tyranny
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Liberty
Minorities
Causes
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Country
Art
Fall
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
Samuel Adams
Rights
Liberty
Together
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Gun
StrongArms
People
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . 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
Samuel Adams
Patriotic
People
Ignorant
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Long
Liberty
Extinction
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