Give me liberty or give me death.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers ma...
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.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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.
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.
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Fear is the passion of slaves.
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 Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
The great object is that every man be armed.
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.
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 de...
I am not a Virginian but an American.
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more t...
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 inevi...