Patrick Henry Quotes
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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.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.
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Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.
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The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.
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There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
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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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Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.
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If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.
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I shall honour the Quakers for their noble Effort to abolish Slavery. It is equally calculated to promote moral & political Good.
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The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
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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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The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.
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Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.
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Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.
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Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
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Don't measure the height of your Christmas tree. Measure the abundance of the love present in your heart! Have a Blessed Christmas!