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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
Henry
American
Virginians

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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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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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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
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O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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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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Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
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