The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
PATRICK HENRYIt is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
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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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Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
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United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
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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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It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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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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The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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