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Samuel Adams

American

September 27, 1722

Revolutionary

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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

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It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

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It is not infrequent 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 and weaker than themselves.

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