Quote by Samuel Adams on Responsibility Towards Posterity

„Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!“

Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams warns against sacrificing future generations' freedom for present benefits.
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Samuel Adams was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

A quote by Samuel Adams emphasizing the responsibility towards future generations.


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Samuel Adams quote about protecting posterity's liberty

Samuel Adams (1722–1803) was an influential American statesman, political theorist, and revolutionary. He played a key role in the American Revolution and was a strong advocate for liberty and resistance against British rule.

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"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
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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." Samuel Adams
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"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!" Samuel Adams
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"It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves." Samuel Adams
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