- “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”
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together […]
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, […]
“That we will, at all times hereafter, consider ourselves as a free and independent state, capable of regulating our internal police, in […]
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us […]