Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
- Patrick Henry
More Quotes By Patrick Henry
- Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with...
- Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains....
- The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers...
- If this be treason, make the most of it!
- This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them...
- Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and...
- United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon...
- The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian,...
- Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms...
- Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it...
- When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the...
- Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of...
- [Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
- It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is...
- The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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