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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
Virginia
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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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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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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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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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
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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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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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