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It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel Adams



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Author Profession: Revolutionary
Nationality: American
Born: September 27, 1722
Died: 1803

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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.
Samuel Adams

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.
Samuel Adams

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

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.
Samuel Adams

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.
Samuel Adams

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams

All Samuel Adams Quotations



Words
Brush, Does, Fires, Irate, Keen, Majority, Minds, Minority, Prevail, Rather, Require, Set, Tireless
Definitions
Brush, Does, Irate, Keen, Majority, Minority, Prevail, Rather, Require, Set, Tireless
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