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Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
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.
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.
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.
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.