The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
PATRICK HENRY
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. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
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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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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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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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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.
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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.
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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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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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I smell a rat.
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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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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.
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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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