Patrick Henry Quotes

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• If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we…
• We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.
• . . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we…
• I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
• Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,…
• I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if…
• They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be…
• I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.
• This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
• The people have a right to keep and bear arms.
• We have not yet begun to fight.
• The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that…
• Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life,…
• O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could…
• Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred…
• Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover…
• Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If…
• Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good…
• Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with…
• It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

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