Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
PATRICK HENRYLiberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
PATRICK HENRYI smell a rat.
PATRICK HENRYGuard 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.
PATRICK HENRYThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
PATRICK HENRYPatrick 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.
PATRICK HENRYI believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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.
PATRICK HENRYGuard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing.
PATRICK HENRYAre we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
PATRICK HENRYIt is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
PATRICK HENRYI know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
PATRICK HENRYFear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRYI am not a Virginian, but an American.
PATRICK HENRYIt is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
PATRICK HENRYThree 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.
PATRICK HENRYA 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.
PATRICK HENRY