Patrick Henry on identity
Patrick Henry47 quotes“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!”
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It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian Religion. If they had that and I had not given them one shilling they would have been rich; and if they had not that and I had given them all the world, they would be poor.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Fear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Patrick Henry wanted the Constitution to have a Bill of Rights attached to it — a list of powers that the government could never use against the people of the United States.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects’ obedience.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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Dolph LundgrenDolph Lundgren How you treat yourself becomes the identity others see in you.
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Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah I wasn’t always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil – not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn’t call me Virgil.
Michaela CoelMichaela Coel I was always called Payne or Payno.
Liam PayneLiam Payne Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson Here’s the thing about Donald Trump: He never apologizes. He’s never wrong, no matter what crazy thing he says. He’s totally – he’s the white Kanye.
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