Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

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The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.

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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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

Patrick Henry

Mots clés religion sin preaching pastors

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

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Mots clés morality sin right-and-wrong

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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.

Patrick Henry

Mots clés suspicion

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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?

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Mots clés liberty chance rulers country rights

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Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?...I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

Mots clés colonies revoultion

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Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]

Patrick Henry

Mots clés liberty freedom history death revolution american-revolution founding-fathers revolt

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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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