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Patrick Henry Inspirational Quotes (58)

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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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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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 great object is that every man be armed.
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Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.
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There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
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My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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They tell us, sir, that we are weak unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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 believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
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....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.
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The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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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.
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He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.
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