Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

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…

- Patrick Henry

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

- Patrick Henry

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

- Patrick Henry