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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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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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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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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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