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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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Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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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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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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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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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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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
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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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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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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 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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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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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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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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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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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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