Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
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
Religion
Armor
Social
Invincible
Government
Ethics
Great
Morality
Life
Friend
Virtue
Alone
Renders
Moral
Pillars
More quotes by 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
Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
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?
Patrick Henry
What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
Patrick Henry
We have not yet begun to fight.
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
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 should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
Fear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick Henry
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
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.
Patrick Henry
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
Patrick Henry
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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
They tell us, sir, that we are weak unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Patrick Henry
The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
Patrick Henry