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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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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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The great object is that every man be armed.
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
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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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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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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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We have not yet begun to fight.
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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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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 eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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