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==Quotes==
==Quotes==
*"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Speech celebrating [[American Independence]], August 1, 1776
*"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Speech celebrating [[American Independence]], August 1, 1776
*"May every citizen in the army and in the country, have a proper sense of the DEITY upon his mind, and an impression of that declaration recorded in the Bible, " Him that honoreth me I will honor, but he that despiseth me shall be lightly esteemed.""<ref>1 Samuel 2:30</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6pILAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA189 The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802], Boston Gazette, June 12, 1780</ref>
*"Constitution be never construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."<ref>A proposal that Adams made in 1788. [http://books.google.com/books?id=wwQOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA267&dq=adams+%22peaceable+citizens+from+keeping+their+own+arms%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES p 267]</ref>
*"Constitution be never construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."<ref>A proposal that Adams made in 1788. [http://books.google.com/books?id=wwQOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA267&dq=adams+%22peaceable+citizens+from+keeping+their+own+arms%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES p 267]</ref>