Patrick Henry Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”
-- Patrick Henry

#Bible #God #Christian

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Fake People #4th Of July #Political

“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.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Family #Giving #Religion

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Inspirational #Courage #Veterans Day

“I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Future #Past #Judging

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
-- Patrick Henry

#4th Of July #Patriotic #America

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Feet #Lamps

“Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Government #Evil #Abuse

“When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.”
-- Patrick Henry

#America #Liberty #Different

“Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Freedom #Jealous #Blessing

“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?”
-- Patrick Henry

#Real #Hands #Differences

“Fear is the passion of slaves.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Fear #4th Of July #Passion

“If this be treason, make the most of it!”
-- Patrick Henry

#Conservative #Treason

“O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?”
-- Patrick Henry

#Punishment #Tyrants #People

“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
-- Patrick Henry

#Aggravation #Arms #Lasts

“We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Second Amendment #Sparks #Revolution

“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?”
-- Patrick Henry

#Country #Loss #Men

“The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Government #Armor #Pillars

“The great object is that every man be armed.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Men #Gun #Second Amendment

“I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Believe #Opportunity #Evil

“The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Heart #Liberty #Firsts

“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Inspirational #Death #Giving

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Truth #Honesty #Integrity

“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.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Jealous #Jewels #Long

“My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?”
-- Patrick Henry

#People #Political #Curiosity

“The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Strong #Fighting #Brave

“Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Men #Citizens #Moral

“It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Vices #Appearance #Clergy

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Song #Eye #Men

“United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.”
-- Patrick Henry

#Fall #Unions #Splits