Samuel Adams Quote 

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these:
first, a right to life;
secondly, to liberty;
thirdly to property;
together with the right to support and defend them
in the best manner they can."

by:
Samuel Adams
(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
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By carrying a concealed handgun, I support and defend life, liberty and property ... mine, my family, my friends, and my neighbors.
 -- Joe, Rochester, MI		 
Unless you live in the Socialist States of America and you're given a government privilege to carry a handgun (a license), pay your annual government fee to own your own land (property tax), have "safety laws" that destroy the protection of basic inalienable rights, or have a government that allows freedom of "choice" to come into affect only after a women has had sex to when she has become pregnant and kills the fetus. Samuel Adams was right, but we don't have guarded these "natural rights" anymore... We're truly on one destructive slippery slope.
 -- Logan, Memphis, TN		 
Tools like privacy and weapon ownership rights work to secure this.
 -- G■l■k Zolt■n Leenderdt Franco Buday, Vancouver, GVRD(Paine Cnty), Coastal Lwr Mainland BC(State of Neo Sumer), U.S. of Eh!		 
I think this is a wonderful quote. It clears up the term "pursuit of happiness" to mean property. Of course, property should be defined and understood to be real and personal property (including financial and intellectual). This definition of our Declaration of Independence is made more complete with the next line....."That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gtoverned." And the next "That whenever any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." These precious words outline rights given by God and not by man and fertilized with the precious blood, sweat and tears of those who gave (some gave all) to preserve them for themselves and their posterity. ... " Mr Bush, our founding documents are NOT "just G.......d pieces of paper". Your words and your actions have greviously violated the oath you have sworn at least twice before God. Your duty is to represent us and to SECURE our rights! It is NOT to violate them by imposing tyranny and subjugation to an Earth Charter under a Communist United Nations. We have no king but Jesus.
 -- Alan Hagerman, Wellsboro, Pa		 
It is a amazing, lifting quote, thank you for sharing.
 -- Emma, Fairfax, VA		 
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 -- dragonswizardz 
I think that this is a great quote. These are the three basic natural laws that everyone should be entitled to.
 -- Anonymous, Texas		 
Very good!
 -- missminnesota, San Fransisco		 
This Quote IS a Strong Belief displayed for all to see that Sam Adams was a true american at heart
 -- Maria Warman, Sapulpa		 
Good Quote!
 -- Kate, Murphy		 
 -- Samuel, Colarado Springs 
If only the average American citizen would acknowledge and understand this simple statement...
 -- Patriot58, San Diego, CA		 
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