Instruments Quotes by Patrick Henry

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

— 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…

— 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…

— Patrick Henry

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

“When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.”

— Patrick Henry

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

— Patrick Henry

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

— Patrick Henry

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

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

— Patrick Henry

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

— Patrick Henry

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

— Patrick Henry

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

— Patrick Henry