Patrick Henry Quotes
quotes by Patrick Henry

Conservative
Words of Wisdom

"Fear is the passion of slaves."

"This is no time for ceremony."

“Bad men cannot make good citizens."

"I am not a Virginian, but an American."

"it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope."

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

"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."

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

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

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

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"

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

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

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

"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."

“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.”

"Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."

“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!”

"we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up 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."

“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.”

“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.”

"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 ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight!"

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com