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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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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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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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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
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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 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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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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 great object is that every man be armed.
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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.
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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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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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