Samuel Adams

(411 votes)   If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity 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; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

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(350 votes)   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.

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(159 votes)   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.

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(150 votes)   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.

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(147 votes)   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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(144 votes)   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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(140 votes)   How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

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(139 votes)   Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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(137 votes)   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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(129 votes)   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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(125 votes)   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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(123 votes)   We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

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(122 votes)   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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(119 votes)   We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

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