Quote by Samuel Adams on Freedom and Resistance

„If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.“

Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams warns against passively accepting unlawful attacks on freedom, which can lead to our own and others' doom.
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Samuel Adams was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

This quote by Samuel Adams warns of the consequences of passively accepting violations of freedom and emphasizes the responsibility to resist.


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Inspirational Samuel Adams quote about defending liberty and resisting lawless attacks

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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Samuel Adams quote about defending freedom and civil libertiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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Ayn Rand quote about freedom, speaking up, and the dangers of silenceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell." Ayn Rand
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Samuel Adams quote about freedom, unity, and the dangers of tyrannyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny." Samuel Adams
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Samuel Adams quote about freedom, knowledge, and virtueCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders." Samuel Adams
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