I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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 but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
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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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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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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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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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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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It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
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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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Give me liberty or give me death.
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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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