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Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American revolutionary. He was governor of Massachusetts from 1793 to 1797.
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- Simple: If everyone wanted freedom enough to fight for it, everyone would be free.
- "All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another."[2]
- Simple: All men should have a choice to leave somewhere they don't like for whatever reasons
- "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."[2]
- Simple: Men should be controlled only by the law of nature
- Simple: This morning is filled with glory for the United States of America!
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Samuel Adams
Founding Father of the United States (1722–1803)
For other uses, see Samuel Adams (disambiguation).
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In this c. 1772 portrait, Adams points at the Massachusetts Charter, which he viewed as a constitution that protected the peoples' rights.[1] | |
| In office October 8, 1794 – June 2, 1797 Acting: October 8, 1793 – October 8, 1794 | |
| Lieutenant | Moses Gill |
| Preceded by | John Hancock |
| Succeeded by | Increase Sumner |
| In office 1789–1794 Acting Governor October 8, 1793 – 1794 | |
| Governor | John Hancock |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Lincoln |
| Succeeded by | Moses Gill |
| In office 1787–1788 1782–1785 | |
| In office 1774–1777 | |
| In office 1779–1781 | |
| In office 1766–1774 | |
| Born | (1722-09-27)September 27, 1722 Boston, Massachusetts Bay |
| Died | October 2, 1803(1803-10-02) (aged 81) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Granary Burying Ground, Boston |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican (179 • Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams (27 September1722 – 2 October1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, 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. Quotes[edit]
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