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If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.
— Samuel Adams
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
— Samuel Adams
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.
— Samuel Adams
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
— Samuel Adams
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
— Samuel Adams
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.
— Samuel Adams
Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.
— Samuel Adams
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
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.
— Samuel Adams
I have long left the notion of guessing the mind of God.
— Amber Schamel
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.
— Samuel Adams
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.
— Samuel Adams
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
— Samuel Adams
What a glorious morning this is!
— Samuel Adams
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
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
— Samuel Adams
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
A wasted human being
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
— Samuel Adams
It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
— Samuel Adams
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
— Samuel Adams
I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.
— Samuel Adams
Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Let no man thirst for good beer.
— Samuel Adams
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
— Samuel Adams
Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
By no stretch of charity could he be called an ornament to the human species.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
— Samuel Adams
Give credit to whom credit due.
— Samuel Adams
Boredom and booze
cause and effect. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
cause and effect. — Samuel Hopkins Adams