Quotes by : Samuel Adams

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

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

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin....

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards;....

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will....

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

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and....

'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....