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.
PATRICK HENRYThe great object is that every man be armed.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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I smell a rat.
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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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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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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 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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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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Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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