[af_vet_rr]

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom--go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. 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

It's a shame that when you say the name "Samuel Adams" these days, most people think of beer. Out of the founding fathers, he doesn't get the attention and respect he deserves.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Out of the founding fathers, he doesn't get the attention and respect he deserves.

AMEN, considering that without him, there would have been no organized resistance to the Stamp Act; therefore no Sons of Liberty; therefore no Committees of Correspondence; etc. Sam was a revolutionary, not a politician---that's why he sort of dropped off the map after the fighting was done.

[George Smiley]

And the funny thing is that Sam was apparently a better patriot than brewer- his brewery went belly up.

[zeugma]

It's a shame that when you say the name "Samuel Adams" these days, most people think of beer. Out of the founding fathers, he doesn't get the attention and respect he deserves.

Agreed. I must admit though, it is good beer. :-)