If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long…

Quote by Patrick Henry

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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be...

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be...

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty,...

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty,...

The great object is that every man be armed.

The great object is that every man be armed.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know...

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know...

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

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

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions...

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions...

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

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.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is...

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is...

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the...

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the...

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing...

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing...

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

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

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing...

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing...

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is...

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is...

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.

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was...

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was...

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but...

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but...

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of...

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of...

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer...

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer...