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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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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Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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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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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 King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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. . . 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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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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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.
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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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