Samuel Adams Quotes
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
Adams, Samuel. "Candidus." Boston Gazette, 14 Oct. 1771. The Writings of Samuel Adams, edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing, vol. 2, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906, p. 256.
Goldman and other American radicals who had been born in Russia were deported to America after the Palmer Raids. When she arrived, she was shocked that the Russian Revolution had betrayed all the principles of freedom that had been advocated by most of the communist leaders. She left Russia and for the rest of her life condemned the Russian Bolsheviks and the result of the Revolution. She was one of the first radicals who realized that Russia itself had betrayed the principles of the revolution.
Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who was blind and deaf, and yet she became a great orator and social reformer.
Marion was the initiator of Guerilla Warfare and he and his men traveled lightly spending much time in the South Carolina swamps. They had few supplies and when chased by the British could not stop to hunt. The British called him the “Swamp Fox”. The American colonists at this point still thought of the British as “their countrymen.”
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers 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.
