August 03, 2024
Timothy Birdnow
They must make us beasts, not men, if they want to control us. Let us
fulfill all of our lusts and ignore the ordering of society! Let them
rule while we play! Beasts are always easy to control compared to free
and virtuous men.
"For wherever Tyranny is established, immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice. For they cannot live in any Country where Virtue and Knowledge prevail. The Religion and public Liberty of a People are intimately connected; their Interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this Reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the People's Liberties, practice every Art to poison their Morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all Events, to put a Stop to the Progress of Tyranny?"
—Samuel Adams, for the Boston Gazette, Oct. 2, 1772.
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