Quote by Samuel Adams on Freedom, Virtue, and Tyranny

„It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.“

Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams on the connection between freedom, virtue, and the dangers of tyranny to society and morality.
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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 highlights the close connection between freedom, religion, and morality in a society, as well as the threat posed by tyrannical rule.


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Samuel Adams quote about freedom, virtue, and tyranny

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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"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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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." Voltaire
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