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 HENRY
PATRICK HENRY
Patrick Henry on goodness
Patrick Henry47 quotes“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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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — [‘Treason!’ cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry 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.
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ZoroasterZoroaster Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
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