The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
PATRICK HENRYIt is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
More Patrick Henry Quotes
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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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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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Give me liberty or give me death.
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I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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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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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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Mr. President, 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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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, 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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Patrick 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.
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The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I smell a rat.
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