Samuel Adams

"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you . . ."
Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams was a passionate man who used expressive words to describe the situation in Post-Revolutionary days. Well, did he say: "Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."

Here is one of our favorite quotes by him.

“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"