Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
PATRICK HENRYSuspicion 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.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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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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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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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.
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I smell a rat.
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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.
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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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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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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.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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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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