Samuel Adams Quotes About Politics

• Si amáis más la riqueza que la libertad, la tranquilidad de la servidumbre que la animada contienda de la libertad, volved a casa en paz. No os pedimos consejos ni armas. Agachaos y lamed las manos que os alimentan. Que vuestras cadenas no os pesen y que la posteridad olvide que fuisteis nuestros compatriotas.

  Samuel Adams

  Amor, Paz, Libertad

  Samuel AdamsDiscurso pronunciado en la Casa de Estado de Filadelfia, Filadelfia, 1 de agosto de 1776.

• He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.

  Samuel Adams

  Trust, Wise, Country

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

• Los esquemas utópicos de nivelación y comunidad de bienes son tan visionarios y poco prácticos como los que confieren toda la propiedad a la corona. Estas ideas son arbitrarias, despóticas y, en nuestro gobierno, inconstitucionales.

  Samuel Adams

  Gobierno, Ideas, Comunidad

• The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

  Samuel Adams

  Character, Men, Voting

• La humanidad se rige más por sus sentimientos que por la razón.

  Samuel Adams

  Política, Sentimientos, Libertad

  En J. N. Rakove "The Beginnings of National Politics" (1979) p. 92

• Todos podrían ser libres si valoraran la libertad y la defendieran como es debido.

  Samuel Adams

  Verdad, Libertad, Política

  Samuel Adams (1906). "Los escritos de Samuel Adams: 1770-1773"

• Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

  Samuel Adams

  Ambition, Blessing, Equality

  Speech in the State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com. August 01, 1776.

• The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done...Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.

  Samuel Adams

  Wise, Men, Rights

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