Samuel Adams Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Long, Liberty, Extinction

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• One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

  Samuel Adams

  Long, Independence, Battle

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• We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

  Samuel Adams

  Example, Revolution, Language

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• Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Rights, Self

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

  Samuel Adams

  Thinking, Ornaments, Helping

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

  Samuel Adams

  Shopkeepers, Disinterested, Nations

  'Oration in Philadelphia' 1 August 1776 (the authenticity of this publication is doubtful).

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• Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

  Samuel Adams

  Military, Exercise, Rights

  Samuel Adams (1904). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1764-1769”

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• Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

  Samuel Adams

  America, Effort, Enemy

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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