Samual Adams first Vice President and second President of These Great United States.

These are pearls of insight provided by our founding fathers,
they made great sacrifice to ensure to us what we now struggle to continue to maintain.
LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!

Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
Signer of the Declaration of Independence,
Delegate to the First Continental Congress, Governor of Massachusetts

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

“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.”

“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”

“If our trade may be taxed, why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess, or use? This we conceive annihilates our charter rights to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which, as we have never forfeited, we hold in common with our fellow subjects, who are natives of Britain. If tastes are laid upon us in any shape, without our having a legal representation, where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects, to the state of tributary slaves. We, therefore, earnestly recommend it to you, to use your utmost endeavours to obtain from the general court, all necessary advice and instruction to our agent, at this most critical Juncture. . . . We also desire you to use your endeavours, that the other colonies, having the same interests and rights with us, may add their weight to that of this province; that by united application of all who are agreed, all may obtain redress!”

“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.”

“If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.”

“Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.”

“A Standing Army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the Liberties of the People.”

“While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued: but when once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”

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

“Man’s rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.”

“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.”

“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that ‘if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.’ it is a very serious consideration. . . that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and 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, and transmitted to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of 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 be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”

“If ye love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our country men.”

“I am perfectly satisfied of the necessity of a public and explicit declaration of independence.
I cannot conceive what good reason can be assigned against it.
Will it widen the breach?
This would be a strange question,
after we have raised armies,
and fought battles with the British troops;
set up an American navy;
permitted the inhabitants of these colonies to fit out armed vessels,
to capture the ships, &c.
belonging to any of the inhabitants of Great Britain;
declaring them the enemies of the United Colonies;
and torn into shivers their acts of trade,
by allowing commerce, subject to regulations to be made by ourselves,
with the people of all countries, except such as are subject to the British king.
It cannot surely, after all this,
be imagined that we consider ourselves,
or mean to be considered by others,
in any other state, than that of independence.”


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