"The liberties of a people never were, nor……" — Patrick Henry
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
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88 Quotes by Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry has 88 quotes on this site.
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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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More Concealed Quotes
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one of 243 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to…
— Honore de Balzac
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
— Theodor Adorno
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed…
— Sandra Bullock
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human…
— Friedrich Engels
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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