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Quote DB :: Authors :: Samuel Adams :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Samuel Adams Listed in: Freedom, Liberty Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.68  Rate Quote 66 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Samuel Adams "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." "Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason." Top 5 quotes from Freedom, Liberty "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel." "The people are their own liberators." "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

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