Samuel Adams Quotes

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
• How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Other interesting Samuel Adams Facts

• Organized first Committee of Correspondence.
• A Founder of "The Sons of Liberty" in November 1765.
• First to propose a Continental Congress.
• Helped write the Articles of Confederation in 1777.
• Opposed ratifying Constitution until the Bill of Rights was added.

Samuel Adams, (born September 27 [September 16, Old Style], 1722, Boston, Massachusetts [U.S.] - died October 2, 1803, Boston), politician of the American Revolution, leader of the Massachusetts “radicals,” who was a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774–81) and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Samuel Adams was an early and exceptionally influential leader of Bostonians from resistance to outright conflict with the British government in the 1760s and 1770s. Adams helped organize the Sons of Liberty, signed the Declaration of Independence, and was governor of Massachusetts.

“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.” “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” “Virtue is not always amiable.” “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

Samuel Adams, “On American Independence” 1776 He declared, “Courage, then, my countrymen; our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.”

He also was a serious political theorist who championed the notion of individual rights, which became a core American value. During the Revolutionary War, Adams served in the Continental Congress and helped draft the Articles of Confederation, the document that was the predecessor to the U.S. Constitution.

Adams aligned himself with the “popular party,” those citizens who opposed Parliament's infringements of the rights granted them in the Massachusetts Charter. He secured his first political position as a Clerk of the Boston Market in 1747.

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Founding Father Samuel Adams Samuel Adams (often shortened to Sam Adams) is the flagship brand of the Boston Beer Company. It is named after US Founding Father Samuel Adams, who inherited his father's brewery on Boston's King Street (modern day State Street) and worked as a brewer or maltster.

The Adams papers contain letters to Adams and drafts of letters by him, chiefly on public affairs; as well as manuscripts of addresses, petitions, committee minutes, resolutions, and other documents.

Samuel Adams is remembered as a fiery revolutionary and staunch patriot while his second cousin John is remembered as a sophisticated political operator.