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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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Patrick Henry
Age: 63 †
Born: 1736
Born: May 29
Died: 1799
Died: June 6
Governor Of Virginia
Lawyer
Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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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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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We should transmit to posterity our 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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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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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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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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