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The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry
Age: 63 †
Born: 1736
Born: May 29
Died: 1799
Died: June 6
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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 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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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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