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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry
Age: 63 †
Born: 1736
Born: May 29
Died: 1799
Died: June 6
Governor Of Virginia
Lawyer
Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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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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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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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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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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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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