Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henrywas an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia. A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth29 May 1736
CityHanover County, VA
CountryUnited States of America
dreams future history
I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
vices appearance clergy
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
bible god christian
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!
fake-people 4th-of-july government
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
4th-of-july patriotic america
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.
4th-of-july blessing men
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.
second-amendment sparks revolution
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.
bible god christian
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
jealous jewels long
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.
conservative treason stamp-act
If this be treason, make the most of it!
people looks paper
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.
arms lost congress
If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.
book printed
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
slavery should transmit
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.