10 insightful quotes by patrick henry
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
- For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
- Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
- A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects’ obedience.
- Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
- Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
- Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
- When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.
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