Samuel Adams Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

  Samuel Adams

  Bible, God, Patriotic

• The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.

  Samuel Adams

  Reality, Hands, People

• Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

  Samuel Adams

  Ambition, Blessing, Equality

  Speech in the State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com. August 01, 1776.

• I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and only one of a thousand to survive and retain his liberty. One such freeman must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves.

  Samuel Adams

  Struggle, Men, Ninety Nine

• The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

  Samuel Adams

  People, Heaven, Enjoy

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

• We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection

  Samuel Adams

  Heaven, Protection, Aids

  Address to a meeting of delegates to the Continental Congress, Yorktown, Pennsylvania, September 1777.

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