When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.
PATRICK HENRY
PATRICK HENRY
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Patrick Henry47 quotes“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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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.
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