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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

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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Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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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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Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?
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Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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 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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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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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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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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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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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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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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