Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

- Samuel Adams

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 …

- Samuel Adams

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your …

- Samuel Adams

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienc…

- Samuel Adams

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

- Samuel Adams

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. …

- Samuel Adams

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

For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary…

- Samuel Adams

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 at…

- Samuel Adams