Patrick Henry

"Some gentleman here will get up and tell us that all is not lost yet."

"Are the military and naval establishments now on foot competent to the purposes of maintaining the rights of the people?"

"We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne."

"Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!"

"If this be treason, make the most of it."

"The greatest monarchy must in the end yield to the popular will."

"Man, I have found, is always ready to sacrifice the liberty of others for his own liberty."

"Liberty warrants us in every forceful means to maintain it, except what is base and dishonorable."

"Providence has been pleased to guide us so far in our struggles."

"The orators of former ages have been your examples."

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

"Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to slavery?"

"England is lost; and will some of you join in mourning over her decaying freedom?"

"I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of our fathers is all that is left us."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Freedom does not mean the absence of all restraint, but rather the right restraint of liberty."

"Wisdom directs every honest mind in the knowledge of its true interests."

"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."

"Jesus Christ is my God, my Creator, and I hope my Redeemer."

"Our posterity will exclaim, we are not free."

"I am not able to govern others; how, then, can I hope to govern myself?"

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

"There is an awful moment impending over this country, which will require wisdom and virtue to save us."

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

"Has Great Britain any right to say to us: Submit to our legislation, and we pledge ourselves to redress your grievances?"

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

"Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."

"One certain means of checking the progress of evil is to detect it early."

"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."

"Character is as much a function of intellect as it is of morality."