Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
Patrick Henry
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Patrick Henry
Age: 63 †
Born: 1736
Born: May 29
Died: 1799
Died: June 6
Governor Of Virginia
Lawyer
Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
Henry
Rights
Forget
People
Recurrence
Adherence
Forge
Tyrants
Chains
Morality
More quotes by Patrick Henry
The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.
Patrick Henry
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?
Patrick Henry
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
Patrick Henry
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
Patrick Henry
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.
Patrick Henry
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
Patrick Henry
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?
Patrick Henry
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry
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.
Patrick Henry
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
Patrick Henry
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
Patrick Henry
We have not yet begun to fight.
Patrick Henry
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?
Patrick Henry
I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
Patrick Henry
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
Patrick Henry
Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.
Patrick Henry
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.
Patrick Henry
