Samuel Adams Quotes

• What a glorious morning is this.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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 attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Liberty, Constitution, Freedom
• 

  It does not take a majority to prevail but rather a tireless, irate minority, keen to set brush fires in the minds.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority, Freedom, Minority

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

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Tyrant, Will, Meaning

• It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority, Rather, Minority

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind

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

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Events, Wisely, Improve

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Achievement, Life

  Tags in Good, Freedom

• It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Minorities, Character, Argument, Virtue, Freedom

• Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Void, Virtuous

• 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 defend them in the best manner they can.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

• The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  Samuel Adams

  Tags in Constitution

Samuel Adams (13)

Birth:	27th September, 1722
Death:	2nd October, 1803
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

Related Authors

• John Hoeven
• William Pitt
• Harold Edward Holt
• Lucy Powell
• John Hay
• Léopold Sédar Senghor
• Mitch McConnell
• Khaleda Zia
• William Pennington
• Conor Cruise O'Brien

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 30th December

Births

• 1942 - Robert Quine
• 1930 - Sultan bin Abdulaziz
• 1887 - Charles D. Broad
• 1982 - Lacey Chabert
• 1961 - Douglas Coupland

Deaths

• 1979 - Richard Rodgers
• 2005 - Rona Jaffe
• 1568 - Roger Ascham
• 1970 - Sonny Liston
• 2009 - Abdurrahman Wahid