Samuel Adams Quote

[Indy Lurker]

I stumbled across this quote today, and it seems as appropriate today as it did 200 years ago when it was written.


Samuel Adams:
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

[kentuck]

1. Very appropriate ..

for the times.

[independentpiney]

2. Sounds nice, but.....

He may well have been referring to 'attacks' by poor farmers & tradesmen against the landed, wealthy elite he was a part of, and for whom the revolution was fought and the contitution largely written to protect.

[Perky]

3. "beer is good"????

[CT_Progressive]

4. Not *that* Sam Adams!!!

:rofl:

[TayTay]

6. Yes that Samuel Adams

Why, brewers can't be vigilant caretakers of our precious civil liberties?

We the People includes all of We the People. Samuel Adams, brewer, tax collector, Congressional delegate and Governor of a State was a plain man, drawn from We the People.

As he did, so can we.

[quispquake]

5. Yeah!

I was expecting drunken ramblings here!!!

[Javaman]

7. Samual Adams was a real patriot.

I highly recommand reading up on him. He was a real instigator! Loathed the brits and did everything in his power to piss them off. It got so bad that the other founding fathers asked John Adams if he could talk to Sam and tell him to cool it. LOL

Sam is the man!