Samuel Adams was called the Father of the American Revolution. He was a founding member of the Sons of Liberty. He organized the Boston Tea Party and signed the Declaration of Independence. Here are some of his most informative quotes:
“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.”
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.”
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and in our government, unconstitutional.”
“What a man has honesty acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give but cannot be taken from him without his consent.”
“Now what liberty can there be, where property is taken away without consent?”