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«The great object is that every man be armed.»
«No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
adherence, blessings, firm, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, frugality, fundamental, fundamental principle, moderation, preserved, recurrence, recurrences, temperance
«Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| Keywords:
debase, debased, debases, debasing, degradation, humiliate, humiliated, humiliating
«Give me liberty or give me death.»
«That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to th»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
directed, discharged, discharges, discharging, entitled
«It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! 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 stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is 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!»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Death,
Freedom,
Liberty,
War
| Keywords:
Almighty, Almighty God, begun, brethren, bring to, chains, clash, clashed, clashes, clashing, extenuate, extenuates, forbid, gale, gales, gentlemen, god of war, in the north, in vain, North, North A, North by, purchased, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds, sweeps, The Clash, The Field, the matter, the North, The War, to the north, war cry
«Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.»
«For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.»
«We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Nature,
Power,
Struggle,
Weakness
| Keywords:
The Battle, The God, vigilant
«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 engaged, and which we have pledged ourse»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
basely, contending, engaged, inestimable, inviolate, pledged, privileges
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