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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
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Hanover County
Virginia
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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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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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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance 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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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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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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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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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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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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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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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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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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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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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