Patrick Henry Quotes About Freedom And Liberty

• 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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  Real   Differences  

  Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention, on June 09, 1788. "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution". Book edited by Jonathan Elliot, volume 3, p. 168-169, 1836.

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

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  4th Of July   Jealous  

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

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  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• The great object is that every man be armed.

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  Men  

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• 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!

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  Death   Freedom  

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• [Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

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  Government   People  

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