If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick HenryThe question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
Patrick HenryI know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Patrick HenryThe battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick HenryAre we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
Patrick HenryIs 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!
Patrick HenryTags: liberty freedom revolution slavery
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.
Patrick HenryTags: politics
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick HenryTags: brutus julius-caesar caesar treason charles-the-first cromwell george-the-third oliver-cromwell
Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
Patrick HenryThey tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.
Patrick HenryTags: american-revolution
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