Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 - October 3, 1803) on Society and Freedom(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Statesman, Political Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States
: American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defense of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.”
Source: "The Rights of the Colonists," by Samuel Adams, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, November 20, 1772.
"The Rights of the Colonists," by Samuel Adams, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, November 20, 1772.
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