Quotes by : Samuel Adams

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

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all....

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....

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

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

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....

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share....

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