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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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Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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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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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Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?
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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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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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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.
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The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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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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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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