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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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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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The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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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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. . . 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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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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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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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Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
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It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
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