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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry
Age: 63 †
Born: 1736
Born: May 29
Died: 1799
Died: June 6
Governor Of Virginia
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Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.
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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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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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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It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
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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 King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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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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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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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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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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