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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

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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
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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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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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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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. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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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.
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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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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.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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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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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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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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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 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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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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