Samuel Adams Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Ignorance, Tyrants

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

• It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Art, Fall

  Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

• Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Ignorance, Men

  "The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773".

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