Best Quotes by Patrick Henry (Top 10)
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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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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
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Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third â ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] â may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
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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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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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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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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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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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More Patrick Henry Quotes
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The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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