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Sir Quotes by Patrick Henry
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other…
- 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…
- We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle,…
- When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
- The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
- The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If…
- 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!…
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- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord,… — Samuel Johnson
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? — Samuel Johnson
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — Bertrand Russell
- Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep. — William Shakespeare
- Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is… — Barbara Mertz