American revolution Quote by Patrick Henry

““Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry .]””

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You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

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I shall act as I think my duty requires.

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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

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Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

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