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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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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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There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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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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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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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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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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