"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."

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

Samuel Adams

#Country Quotes #Art Quotes #Fall Quotes

“God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.”
“In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.”
“There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.”
“But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.”
“Books are challenging and inspirational to me.”
“I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“If Donald Trump wins, it represents a rightist revolution in America.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org

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