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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
Lawyer
Politician
Slaveholder
Hanover County
Virginia
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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[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 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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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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What right do they have to say we the people rather than we the States?
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.
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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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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 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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I shall act as I think my duty requires.
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The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
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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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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
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