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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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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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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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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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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Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
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Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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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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