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Samuel Adams
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Man's Rights Are Evident Branches Of, Rather Than Deductions From, The Duty Of Self-preservation, Commonly Called The First Law Of Nature.
Men
Rights
Self
Could I Be Assured That America Would Remain Virtuous, I Would Venture To Defy The Utmost Efforts Of Enemies To Subjugate Her.
America
Effort
Enemy
Every One Knows That The Exercise Of Military Power Is Forever Dangerous To Civil Rights; And We Have Had Recent Instances Of Violences That Have Been Offer'd To Private Subjects.
Military
Exercise
Rights
A Nation Of Shopkeepers Are Very Seldom So Disinterested.
Shopkeepers
Disinterested
Nations
I Believe That No People Ever Yet Groaned Under The Heavy Yoke Of Slavery But When They Deserved It.
Believe
People
Yoke
We Boast Of Our Freedom, And We Have Your Example For It. We Talk The Language We Have Always Heard You Speak.
Example
Revolution
Language
I Cannot However Help Repeating Piety, Because I Think It Indispensible. Religion In A Family Is At Once Its Brightest Ornament & Its Best Security.
Thinking
Ornaments
Helping
[t]he Importance Of Piety And Religion; Of Industry And Frugality; Of Prudence, Economy, Regularity And An Even Government; All . . . Are Essential To The Well-being Of A Family.
Family
Government
Essentials
One Battle Would Do More Towards A Declaration Of Independence Than A Long Chain Of Conclusive Arguments In A Provincial Convention Or The Continental Congress.
Long
Independence
Battle
The Diminution Of Public Virtue Is Usually Attended With That Of Public Happiness, And The Public Liberty Will Not Long Survive The Total Extinction Of Morals.
Long
Liberty
Extinction
Of How Much Importance Is It, That The Utmost Pains Be Taken By The Public To Have The Principles Of Virtue Early Inculcated On The Minds Even Of Children, And The Moral Sense Kept Alive.
Children
Pain
Taken
The Eyes Of Mankind Will Be Upon You To See Whether The Government, Which Is Now More Popular Than It Has Been For Many Years Past, Will Be Productive Of More Virtue Moral And Political. We May Look Up To Armies For Our Defense, But Virtue Is Our Best Security. It Is Not Possible That Any State Should Long Remain Free, Where Virtue Is Not Supremely Honored.
Eye
Army
Past
Born: September 27, 1722
Died: October 2, 1803
Occupation: Founding Father Of The United States
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