I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it. Samuel Adams More Quotes by Samuel Adams More Quotes From Samuel Adams We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak. Samuel Adams revolution language example [M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous. Samuel Adams virtuous virtue liberty 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 extinction liberty long We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection Samuel Adams aids protection heaven Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her. Samuel Adams effort america enemy The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people. Samuel Adams enjoy heaven people A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested. Samuel Adams disinterested shopkeepers nations The harbor shall be a teapot tonight! Samuel Adams That the said Constitution shall never be 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 Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility 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 that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. Samuel Adams 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 once our countrymen. Samuel Adams If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them. Samuel Adams legal free born character If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters. Samuel Adams confidence darkness character people It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams control judge nothing men 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 own never constitution people The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens. Samuel Adams money eye power love Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have. Samuel Adams more nature power men I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind. Samuel Adams just mankind regret interesting Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up. Samuel Adams day fire god night
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