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“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.”

— Patrick Henry

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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. If they had that, and I had not given them one shilling, they would have been rich; and if they had not that, and I had given them all the world, they would be poor.

— Patrick Henry

Life

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

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Hope

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

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Wisdom

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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!

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Freedom

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

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Wisdom

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