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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Fear is the passion of slaves.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Bad men cannot make good citizens.
I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
I shall act as I think my duty requires.
If this be treason, make the most of it!
The great object is that every man be armed.
The people have a right to keep and bear arms.
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.
What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.
Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.
Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.
Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. 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.
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.
Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
