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Public 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…
- Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with…
- Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that…
- Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
- My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to…
- 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…
- 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…
More Public Quotes
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- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility… — Banksy
- Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and… — Neal Barnard
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson