Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Samuel Adams (American Founding Father)

Samuel Adams (1722–1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and Founding Father. A second cousin of John Adams, he was a chief agitator in the Boston Tea Party (1773.)

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was central to the movement leading to the American Revolution. A Harvard graduate, he became a tax collector and later served in the Massachusetts legislature (1765–74.) Deeply involved in colonial resistance, he opposed the Stamp Act (1765,) organized the Non-Importation Association (1768,) and founded the Boston Committee of Correspondence (1772.) After the Boston Tea Party, he attended the First and Second Continental Congresses (1774–75) and signed the Declaration of Independence (1776.)

A prolific writer, Adams used newspapers and pamphlets to rally support for independence. Notable works include The Rights of the Colonists (1772,) outlining fundamental liberties, and An Appeal to the World (1770,) defending Boston’s resistance. His writings were later compiled in The Writings of Samuel Adams (1904,) edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing.

Following independence, Adams served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (1789–94) and governor (1794–97.) Mark Puls wrote the biography Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution (2006.)

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It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds…
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Protest

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, the right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Liberty

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Feelings

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Feelings

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.
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Authority

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
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Government

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Defense

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; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
—Samuel Adams
Topics: Wealth, Welfare, Freedom

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