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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?

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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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People
Constitution
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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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Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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