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Samuel Adams

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Samuel Adams

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"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."	America
"Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last resort."	America
"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man."	Voting
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."	Government
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."	Freedom, Liberty
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."	Miscellaneous
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."	Emotion
"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."	Liberty
"The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."	America
"The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it."	America
"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."	Liberty

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