"Let us contemplate our ancestors and our posterity, and decide to maintain the rights bequeathed to us by the former, for the good of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our greater circumspection, deliberation, courage and perseverance, let us remember that "if we meekly suffer an unlawful attack on our freedom, we encourage it and implicate others in our loss. This is a very serious consideration that millions of people have." unborn might be the wretched participants in the event of the revolution, but he is indeed the father of American independence country, in those perilous days, the same important services, like the luminaries of the heavens, each contributed his. share of influence; but, like them, they differed, as stars differ from stars in glory, but in the constellation of the great men who adorned at that time, few shone more brilliantly or exercised more influence. powerful as Samuel Adams. (Fradin 98) People love hearing the story of Samuel Adams for two reasons. It is first and foremost the story of the greatest hero in American history, full of triumphs and fighting for the common good. They also like to know what a failure he was in every sense of the word before finding out exactly what his calling in life was. Perhaps this gives people some hope for their own lives, because he failed at every job he ever held and yet became the greatest man in the history of this beautiful country. Adams came from a fairly wealthy family that resided in Boston. The son of a merchant and maltster, Adams was a 1740 graduate of Harvard College. At Harvard, he publicly defended the thesis that it is "lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the common wealth cannot otherwise be preserved" (Morris 91), which meant that it was acceptable to protest against England if nothing else could improve the situation. Adherence to this principle has always been a central theme of his career. After repeatedly failing at all the jobs he held, some of which were brewer and newspaper publisher...... middle of paper ...... s exemplary in 1775, but became archaic in the s 1790. Uniformly respected, although not always appreciated, Samuel Adams was, in the words of John Adams, "born and dipped in a piece of steel to break the knot of lignum vitae" that bound the America to Britain. » (Miller 95) The transition from England took some time. great leader and idealist to make this happen. Samuel Adams was that man. From the founding of the Sons of Liberty to the founding of the First Continental Congress, Samuel Adams was there through it all and played a major role until his death in 1803. Adams is truly the father of American independence . Work Cited Page “Adams, Samuel. » Encyclopedia Americana, Inc. 1990 ed. Carlson, Bill “Samuel Adams”. The Rhodes Family Genealogy Family Stories, 1991. Fradin, Dennis. Samuel Adams. New York: Clarion Books, 1998. Miller, Ann "Samuel Adams Library, Inc. http://www.bena.com/lucidcafe/library/95sep/adams.html, 1995. Morris, John. "Adams, Samuel." The Reader's Companion to American History., 1991.