"No free government, or the blessings of liberty,……" — Patrick Henry
"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 virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."
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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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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do…
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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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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He…
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Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to…
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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the…
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Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one…
— Unknown Author
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The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a…
— Jon Lord
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What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
— John Marshall
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By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because…
— Fred Melamed
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this…
— Lucretia Mott
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There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single…
— Clayton Christensen
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