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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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They tell us, sir, that we are weak unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
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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 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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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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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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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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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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He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.
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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 believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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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 know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
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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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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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