Tranquillity Tranquility
Samuel Adams quote?
How can I find out which version of this quote is correct? How and when was each version originally recorded?
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
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!
As you can see, the two versions have various minor differences. Did different journalists write the words while they were being spoken? Is that where the differences came from? Which journalist wrote which? Or where was each published?
“If ye love wealth better” is the early version in print, the other only dates from late 1990′s all over them “Quote” pages.
None seem to have much of this very, very long speech.
The original copies are noted in several libraries and that includes in Europe.
Hope this helps, not uncommon with all the “Quote” pages to never give a source, BBC4′s radio show QUQ has tracked down hundreds of errors and such.
Reprinted Sam Adams Thursday 1 August 1776
“An Oration delivered at the State House, Philadelphia”
(they show the front pages 1776) in:
American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses –
by Frank Moore – 1857
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude, than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. …
“chains set” not sit in the above 1857 version, which is likely the correct one as noted.
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 The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams: being a narrative of his acts and opinions, and of… – by William Vincent Wells – 1865
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