Quotes by : Patrick Henry

Give me liberty or give me d

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which....

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the....

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance....

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she....

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor....

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers....

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms....

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty....

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.