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Samuel Adams1722–1803

The Constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Speech in Philadelphia (1776)
- Freedom
- Liberty
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Letter to Samuel Cooper (30 April 1776)
- Emotion
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
Remark in “small confidential companies”; in William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America, vol. 1 (1788, reprinted 1969), entry for March 9, 1774, p. 347.
- America

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
- Politics
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)

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