Patrick Henry Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
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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.
