Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? Of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever. — Patrick Henry Copy Share
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give… — Patrick Henry Copy Share
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that… — Patrick Henry Copy Share
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against… — Patrick Henry Copy Share
“When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.” — Patrick Henry Copy Share
Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps? — Patrick Henry Copy Share
That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry Copy Share
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. — Patrick Henry Copy Share
…I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people… — Patrick Henry Copy Share
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I… — Patrick Henry Copy Share
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share
