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Patrick Henry

“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“Fear is the passion of slaves.”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“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.”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“Give me liberty or give me death.”

- Patrick Henry

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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.”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“I know no way of judging the future but by the past.”

- Patrick Henry

Source/Notes: The Anthology of American Politics, Douglas Editions
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Patrick Henry

“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“If this be treason, make the most of it!”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“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!”

- Patrick Henry

Source/Notes: I am not a Virginian but an American (1926 edition)
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Patrick Henry

“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.”

- Patrick Henry

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“The great object is that every man be armed.”

- Patrick Henry

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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.”

- Patrick Henry

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Patrick Henry

“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.”

- Patrick Henry

Source/Notes: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries (2007 edition), Warwick House Publishing
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