Patrick Henry Quotes

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole ch...

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The ...

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

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

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.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortu...

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give the...

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

Give me liberty or give me death.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...

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

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know t...

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of ...

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

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it...

Give me liberty or give me d

The great object is that every man be armed.

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

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

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know ...

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...

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

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know t...

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

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

Give me liberty or give me death.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, ...

I am not a Virginian but an American.