Samuel Adams Quotes
This Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, Member of the Continental Congress, Governor of Massachusetts, Proposed but rejected amendment to the Constitution
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At that time, ideology was not a driving political force and individual politicians often were hard to classify. For example, Humphrey was at the far left—an ultra liberal. Yet he was a staunch advocate of the right to bear arms. 50 years later there were no liberals who did not want to restrict gun ownership, And at that time, many Republicans were advocates of gun control, an unheard of situation in the 21st century beginning.
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.
