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Samuel Adams on Freedom

1722–1803 United States

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The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.

Essay published in The Advertiser (1748)

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.

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