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Give me liberty or give me death.

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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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Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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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 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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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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