Quote by Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

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.

— Samuel Adams. Founding Father of the United States (1722–1803)

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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.
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
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.
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.
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

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