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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Patrick Henry
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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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Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?
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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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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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