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It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

— Samuel Adams

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

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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.

If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.

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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

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