I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
PATRICK HENRYThe great object is that every man be armed.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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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 great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
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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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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 eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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 smell a rat.
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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian Religion. If they had that and I had not given them one shilling they would have been rich; and if they had not that and I had given them all the world, they would be poor.
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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 when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
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