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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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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
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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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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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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
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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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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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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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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 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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. . . 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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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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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 shall act as I think my duty requires.
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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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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 Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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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It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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