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…

— Patrick Henry

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them,…

— Patrick Henry

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging…

— 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…

— 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

....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with…

— Patrick Henry

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty…

— Patrick Henry

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by…

— Patrick Henry

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from…

— Patrick Henry

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself…

— Patrick Henry

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people,…

— Patrick Henry

If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long…

— Patrick Henry

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;…

— Patrick Henry

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

— Patrick Henry

The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.

— Patrick Henry

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider,…

— Patrick Henry

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,…

— Patrick Henry

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

— Patrick Henry