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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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Hanover County
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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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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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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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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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Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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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 King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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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Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most 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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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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