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Here are the "retired" quotes from the web site.

 

"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." --Samuel Adams

 

"Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals."  -- Samuel Adams

 

"The civil magistrate has everywhere contaminated religion by making it an engine of policy; and freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth...." And: "...our enemies have made it an object, to eradicate from the minds of the people in general a
sense of true religion and virtue, in hopes thereby the more easily to carry their point of enslaving them."  -- Samuel Adams

 

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating
contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams

 

"Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but
whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."

"If our trade may be taxed, why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and every
thing we possess, or use? This we conceive annihilates our charter rights to govern and tax ourselves. ...If tastes are laid upon us in any shape, without our having a legal representation, where they are
laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects, to the state of tributary slaves."

 

"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. ...It requires time to bring honest men to
think and determine alike even in important matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects." 

"... it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds..." -- Samuel Adams