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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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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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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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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They tell us, sir, that we are weak unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
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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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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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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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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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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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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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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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Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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