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.
PATRICK HENRYWe will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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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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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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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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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.
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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects’ obedience.
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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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Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
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Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
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