Will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
PATRICK HENRYWill preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
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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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Give me liberty or give me death.
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Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
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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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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing.
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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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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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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 battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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