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Samuel Adams Quote – Let Us Become A Virtuous People

By Tina Didreckson On March 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Samuel Adams

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Samuel Adams Quote – A Virtuous People Cannot be Subdued

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Samuel Adams Quote, The Liberties of America

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Benjamin Franklin Quote, Sell Not Virtue

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Benjamin Franklin Poster – Only A Virtuous People Are Capable Of Freedom

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Samuel Adams Quote – The Wisest Constitution And The Wisest Laws

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Samuel Adams Quote – The Surest Means of Securing Liberty

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Thomas Jefferson Quote, The Manners of a People

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John Adams Quote – The Character of Our Rulers

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Samuel Adams, The Wisest Constitution Cannot Help a Corrupt People

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John Adams Quote, We ought to consider what is the end of government, before we determine which is the best form

By Steve Straub On October 5, 2012 · 19 Comments · In John Adams

We ought to consider what is the end of government, before we determine which is the best form. Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of [...]

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Thomas Jefferson Quote – Entitlement

By Steve Straub On October 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Posters, Thomas Jefferson

 

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition”

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787
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Anti-Federalist Three, In all governments virtue will command reverence

By Steve Straub On July 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Anti-Federalist Papers, John Francis Mercer

“Many of us are proud, and are frequently disappointed that office confers neither respect or difference. No man of merit can ever be disgraced by office.

A rogue in office may be feared in some governments—he will be respected in none. After all, what we call respect and difference only arise from contrast of situation, [...]

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Samuel Adams, He is the truest friend to the liberty who tries most to promote virtue

By Steve Straub On July 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Samuel Adams

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.

We must not [...]

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