I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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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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The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
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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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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 know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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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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Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?…I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.
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When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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