Words matter. These are the best Patrick Henry Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Give me liberty or give me death.
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.
The great object is that every man be armed.
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.
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.
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.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
