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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.

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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Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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.
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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?
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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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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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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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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 King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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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.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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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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Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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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.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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