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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

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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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Hanover County
Virginia
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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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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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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 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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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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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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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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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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