It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Quote by Samuel Adams

Topics: Majority Quotes

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who...

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who...

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen...

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen...

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who...

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who...

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly...

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly...

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth,...

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth,...

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall...

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall...

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will...

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will...

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against...

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against...

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest...

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest...

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance;...

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance;...

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be...

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be...

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain...

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain...

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening...

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening...

May we gain the time needed to succeed

May we gain the time needed to succeed

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything,...

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything,...

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give...

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches