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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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Virginians
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?
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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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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
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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 have not yet begun to fight.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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 know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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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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. . . 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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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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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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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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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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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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