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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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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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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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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There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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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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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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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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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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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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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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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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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of 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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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