Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
From Samuel Adams
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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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