Samuel Adams

"Loyalty to the penal code is not loyalty to justice."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil."

"Rights that come from society cannot endure without the corresponding virtues within the people."

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

"The power of the purse is the power of the sword."

"What is a man profited if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?"

"Liberty once lost is lost forever."

"The day may be approaching, in which the suffering shall cease, and the oppressed shall be freed."

"We have always been friends and can remain friends if we choose."

"Do you wonder how a man can be a patriot and yet oppose his country's wars?"

"Education is the means by which the dangerous inclination of mankind can be counteracted."

"Knowledge of the sciences is a farther good to the extent that it turns inward to perfect the mind."

"The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people."

"Shall we, in imitation of those Oriental despotisms, establish a system of espionage?"

"A Constitution must serve not the powers of government, but the rights of the people."

"Prudence suggests we should not neglect our own prosperity while minding the prosperity of others."

"The arm of oppression cannot reach where the pen of philosophy has been."

"In the midst of great achievements, remember to maintain your simplicity."

"The public trust is sacred, and those who hold it must use it wisely."

"Tell me where you get your principles, and I will predict your actions."

"A man of understanding will not be easily drawn into public controversy without proper cause."

"History does not record that tyrants ever decreed themselves tyrants."

"We must judge by the principles of nature, not by the whims of magistrates."

"The happiness of mankind consists in the practice of virtue."

"Grievances never fail to produce effects unless they are redressed by justice."

"No man can serve two masters, nor can a government serve both liberty and tyranny."

"The virtue of a free people is their surest defense."

"Let us fight for the future, not remain enslaved to the past."

"In matters of conscience, no power on earth should stand between a man and his God."