American Minute with Bill Federer

 September 27

 Crying "No taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp
 Act riots and the Boston Tea Party.

 After the "Boston Massacre," he spread Revolutionary sentiment with
 his Committees of Correspondence.

 Known as "The Father of the American Revolution," Samuel Adams, who
 was born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, called for the first Continental Congress
 and signed the Declaration of Independence.

 A cousin of 2nd President John Adams, Samuel Adams wrote in The
 Rights of Colonists, 1772:

 "Among the natural rights of Colonists are: First, a right to life;
 Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to
 defend them...

 The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his
 property without his consent."

 As Massachusetts' Governor, Samuel Adams wrote to James Warren,
 February 12, 1779:

 "A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely
 overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common
 enemy.

 While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they
 lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to
 the first external or internal invader."

 Samuel Adams ended:

 "If we would enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous
 people."



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