Author: Patrick Henry

Quotes

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

- Patrick Henry

Give me liberty or give me death.

Give me liberty or give me death.

- Patrick Henry

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

- Patrick Henry

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

- Patrick Henry

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

- Patrick Henry

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

- Patrick Henry

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

- Patrick Henry

I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.

I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.

- Patrick Henry

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

- Patrick Henry

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