"I believe a time will come when an……" — Patrick Henry
"I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery."
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88 Quotes by Patrick Henry
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been…
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We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.
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. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible.…
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in…
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They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we…
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I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
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The people have a right to keep and bear arms.
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We have not yet begun to fight.
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The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my…
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Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt…
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More Abhorrence Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
— William Godwin
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You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at…
— Blaise Pascal
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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
— Edward Heath
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
— Bergen Evans
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards…
— John Sergeant Wise
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons,…
— Joseph Rotblat
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.
— Stuart Rose
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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