I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
PATRICK HENRYGentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?…I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?…I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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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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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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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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Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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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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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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 know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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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.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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