My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps? — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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 Image
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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