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Category: Patrick Henry

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

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

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

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.

3 December 2020 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!

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

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.

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

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

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

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.

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

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

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

Fear is the passion of slaves.

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

The great object is that every man be armed.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 Patrick Henry

Give me liberty or give me death.

3 December 2020 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.

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