Samuel Adams: "Entitled...by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature"

04/09/2012

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"'Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty,' in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the law of nations and all well-grounded municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former."

-- Samuel Adams, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772


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John Adams: "The lives and liberties of millions yet unborn"

04/04/2012

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"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude and measure, in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations."

-- John Adams, letter to William Cushing, 1776

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Thomas Paine: "It must be something great that moves a nation"

03/26/2012

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"A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation."

-- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792

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