The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of oppression and lawless power, derives a certain remedy to the sufferer by allowing him to remonstrate his grievances, and pointing out methods of relief when the gentle arts of persuasion have lost their efficacy.

— Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams Quotes

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

— Samuel Adams

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Boredom and booze – cause and effect.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Shortest straw pulls the skunk’s tail.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

A wasted human being – that’s a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

I’m a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Printer’s ink, when it spells out a doctor’s promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

I’d sell my soul to the devil if he’d buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a “thoroughly nice girl” for one short year.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of oppression and lawless power, derives a certain remedy to the sufferer by allowing him to remonstrate his grievances, and pointing out methods of relief when the gentle arts of persuasion have lost their efficacy.

— Samuel Adams

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.

— Samuel Adams
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