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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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Patrick Henry
Age: 63 †
Born: 1736
Born: May 29
Died: 1799
Died: June 6
Governor Of Virginia
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Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or 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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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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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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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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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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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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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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