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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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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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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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....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.
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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 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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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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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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. . . 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.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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?
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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