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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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Hanover County
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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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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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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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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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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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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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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