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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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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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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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Give me liberty or give me death.
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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 know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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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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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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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 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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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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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