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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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The great object is that every man be armed.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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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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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.
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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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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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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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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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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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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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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