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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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Patrick Henry
Age: 63 †
Born: 1736
Born: May 29
Died: 1799
Died: June 6
Governor Of Virginia
Lawyer
Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
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There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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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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It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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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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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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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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 have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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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