Patrick Henry Quotes (40 Quotes)

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

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.

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

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.

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

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Patrick Henry opposed the federal Constitution not only because it lacked a Bill of Rights in its unamended form, but also because it would establish a 'consolidated government' rather than a confederation of states. It is proper to note George F. Williso.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

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.... Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation ... inflicted by those who had no power at all.

Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwelland George the Third (Treason, cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

I've known her 18 years. She's been a mentor and a friend and a great administrator, and I think she's done great things for the district, and it's the decision that should have been made.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

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.

It took us three games to get one (good game), ... It really did. At times, we looked as young as we really are. But by the third game, I thought they had gained some experience.

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.

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

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

If this be treason, make the most of it!

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Give me liberty or give me death.

That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to th

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

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against the painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts.

The great object is that every man be armed.

If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourse

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.

... I repeat it, sir, we must fight An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ... Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.... Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave ... ... Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

They tell us sir that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an advesary.But when shall we be stronger

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

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.

We know Virginia is NASCAR country.

It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

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

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

I am not a Virginian, but an American.

I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.