The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRYThe great object is that every man be armed.
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 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 HENRYAre we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
PATRICK HENRYCaesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — [‘Treason!’ cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
PATRICK HENRYBeside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
PATRICK HENRYGive me liberty or give me death.
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 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 HENRYWhen the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
PATRICK HENRYGuard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing.
PATRICK HENRYFear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRYI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
PATRICK HENRYShow 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?
PATRICK HENRYWill preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
PATRICK HENRYShould I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
PATRICK HENRY