Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
PATRICK HENRYCongress 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.
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 the primary object.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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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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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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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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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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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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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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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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Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
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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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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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Give me liberty or give me death.
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