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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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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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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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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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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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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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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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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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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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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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