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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
Lawyer
Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
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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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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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 the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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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I know not what others may choose 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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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 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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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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