Samuel Adams Quotes

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

It is authority that provokes revolution....

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is difficult to dislodge.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

There is no middle course between the throne and the scaffold.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Do you trust the government? No? In that case, let’s overthrow it tomorrow.

To quell all nations - to dethrone all Kings, and plant the Tree of Liberty in our Irish land.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

We do not support rebellion against our rulers even if they are unjust. We do not make supplications against them and do not set any revolution against them.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.