Samuel Adams Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

  Samuel Adams

  Mind, Atheism, Age

  John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”

• Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Freedom, Religion

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams

  Political, Feelings, Liberty

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

• The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored.

  Samuel Adams

  Eye, Army, Past

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

  Samuel Adams

  Business, Feelings, Events

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

• 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.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

  Samuel Adams (1907). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777”

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