The Quote of the Day

[Foxpro.223]

 

[hm1996]

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

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.


Samuel Adams

 

[Foxpro.223]

 

[hm1996]

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

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.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.


Samuel Adams

 

[Stu Farish]

 

[hm1996]

Is that sorta like calling communism socialism?

 

[hm1996]

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.


Samuel Adams

 

[hm1996]

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.


Edmund Burke

 

[hm1996]

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.


Edmund Burke

 

[hm1996]

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.


Edmund Burke

 

[hm1996]

"All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. – freedom is attainable for all who recognize its value and actively protect it."

Samuel Adams