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!
From Patrick Henry
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.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Give me liberty or give me death.
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
The great object is that every man be armed.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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