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Quote DB :: Authors :: Samuel Adams :: View Quote View Quote "The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Samuel Adams Listed in: America Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.33  Rate Quote 18 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Samuel Adams "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; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." "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." "He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." "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." Top 5 quotes from America "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." "The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens, and there it will always be safe." "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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