Because much rewriting of history is destroying the truth.
Samuel Adams
Father of the American Revolution
Quote Background
An excerpt from a speech delivered by Samuel Adams at the State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1776.
Biography
SAMUEL ADAMS (September 27 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to President John Adams.