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
“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
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
The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds.… — 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… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their… — 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
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else! — 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
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
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
