Quotes by : Samuel Adams

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires....

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves....

We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have....

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires....

[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering....

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest....

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid,....

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of....

'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare....

The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of oppression....