I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
PATRICK HENRYThe distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
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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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The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
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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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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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Mr. President, 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 eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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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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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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 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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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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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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