Samuel Adams Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Samuel Adams
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“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”
Rights Quotes
Source: Statement of the Rights of Colonists, etc.
“Both Regiments or none.”
War Quotes
Source: (For the Boston Town Meeting), to Gov. Hutinson demanding the withdrawal of British troops from Bost
“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.”
Feelings Quotes
“Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.”
Politics / government Quotes
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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