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Freedom Quotes by Patrick Henry
- 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…
- Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
- The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
- Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know…
- Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up…
- Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
- I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
- The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a…
- Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted…
- 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…
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