When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
PATRICK HENRYThe eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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?
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing.
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We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?…I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.
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The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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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.
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It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
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