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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.
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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Hanover County
Virginia
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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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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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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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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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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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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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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.
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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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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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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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