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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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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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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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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 battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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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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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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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