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One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Samuel Adams
Long, Independence, Battle

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Samuel Adams
Example, Revolution, Language

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

Samuel Adams
Believe, People, Yoke
Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Samuel Adams
Men, Rights, Self
Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

Samuel Adams
Shopkeepers, Disinterested, Nations
'Oration in Philadelphia' 1 August 1776 (the authenticity of this publication is doubtful).

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

Samuel Adams
Thinking, Ornaments, Helping
Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

Samuel Adams
Military, Exercise, Rights
Samuel Adams (1904). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1764-1769”

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

Samuel Adams
America, Effort, Enemy
Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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