If ye love wealth better than liberty…

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

- Samuel Adams, address to the Philadelphia State House, 1766

Posted on July 17, 2010 at 13:45 by Chris Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Setting brushfires in people’s minds

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

Posted on February 3, 2010 at 13:12 by Chris Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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‘If ever a time should come…’

“If ever a 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

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 16:51 by Chris Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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