Samuel Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 - October 2, 1803) was an American Patriot and organizer of the Boston Tea Party. He played a major role in starting the American Revolution. Born to Boston parents, Adams was a second child and attended school at Boston Latin School and Harvard College where he received a bachelor's degree in 1740 and a master's degree in 1743; prophetically, the subject of his master's thesis was 'Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.' ..."
Born
27 Sep 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts
Articles
Samuel Adams - Hero of the Day, The Daily Objectivist, 2000
The Rocky Road of American Taxation, by Charles W. Adams, Mises.org Daily Article, 15 Apr 2006
Related Topics: Taxation, American Revolutionary War, Canada, Thirteen Colonies, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Private Property, Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Voting, War
Adapted from the author's For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
"Sam Adams ... argued that if the Congress had the power to levy a tax on imports, every seaport, from Maine to Georgia, would be filled with an army of overpaid excisemen, tide-waiters, and cellar rats. And what would happen to the funds raised from the sweat of the people? ... Congress ... would squander it with a reckless profusion, he said."
Related Topics: Taxation, American Revolutionary War, Canada, Thirteen Colonies, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Private Property, Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Voting, War
Adapted from the author's For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
"Sam Adams ... argued that if the Congress had the power to levy a tax on imports, every seaport, from Maine to Georgia, would be filled with an army of overpaid excisemen, tide-waiters, and cellar rats. And what would happen to the funds raised from the sweat of the people? ... Congress ... would squander it with a reckless profusion, he said."
Writings
The Rights of the Colonists: The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, 20 Nov 1772
Related Topic: Rights
Hanover College History Department, Hanover Historical Texts Project
"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. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature."
Related Topic: Rights
Hanover College History Department, Hanover Historical Texts Project
"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. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature."