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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 defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?

Patrick Henry's Popular Quotes

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public con…

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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale tha…

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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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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

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Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and …

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My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him an…

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The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

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

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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

- Patrick Henry