Samuel Adams
Resist Them: Samuel Adams and the Forgotten Duty of a Free People
“Resist them.” Nearly five years before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams demanded that the people resist arbitrary power, warning them that the alternative was to tamely submit, sit idly by, and hope for the best – a recipe for total tyranny. For...
Samuel Adams: “Truly the Man of the Revolution”
“His mind was replete with resources that dissipated fear, and extricated in the greatest emergencies. Thus qualified, he stood forth early, and continued firm, through the great struggle, and may justly claim a large share of honor, due to that spirit of energy which...
The American Revolution Was a Constitutional Crisis
At its core, the American Revolution was a constitutional crisis. The British system of government during the colonial era was a constitutional system, but not in the same sense Americans think of it today. The constitution was not written, and in the British system,...
Step by Step for Liberty: Small Things Grow Great by Concord
Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom! Writing as Candidus in the Boston Gazette on Oct. 14, 1771, Samuel Adams recognized an important and timeless truth. Turning a blind eye to an...