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Liberty Quotes by Patrick Henry
- . . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your…
- The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.
- 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…
- Give me liberty or give me death.
- When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
- I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -…
- Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
- Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any…
- It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!†— but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!…
- 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…
- No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and…
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- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober… — Thomas Jefferson
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin