Samuel Adams Quotes
Perhaps the next and the next will inherit his virtues but in time the worst will take over.
Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, Governor of Massachusetts, Member of the Continental Congress, Statement on the death of George Washington
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Burmese buildings often had beautiful wood carvings at the top of the building pinnacle. This was a metaphor for the changing status of all good things which must deteriorate.
Emerson’s complaint could easily be mistaken for a 21st century complaint about the degeneration of the political dialogue of the era. In reality, the higher minded political discourse were the exceptions in American and world politics.
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.
