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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
Virginia
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More quotes by Patrick Henry
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.
Patrick Henry
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?
Patrick Henry
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.
Patrick Henry
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?
Patrick Henry
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Patrick Henry
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
Patrick Henry
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
Patrick Henry
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
Patrick Henry
Fear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick Henry
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry
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?
Patrick Henry
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.
Patrick Henry
I shall act as I think my duty requires.
Patrick Henry
The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry
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.
Patrick Henry
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
Patrick Henry
Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
Patrick Henry
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
Patrick Henry
