I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRYThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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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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 know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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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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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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 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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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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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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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