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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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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp
of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
-- Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
-- Speech in the Virginia Convention, March 1775
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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!...
I am not a Virginian, but an American.
-- Patrick Henry (1736-1799) -- Speech in the Virginia Convention, September 1774...
Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell
and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker]--may profit by their example....
I smell a rat.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South.
I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance....
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Old Testament -- Psalm cxix, 105
Give me liberty or give me death! -- Patrick Henry (1775)
The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every one who is able may have a gun.
-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788...
I wish I could leave you my most cherished possession - my faith in Jesus Christ.
For with Him you have everything; without Him you have nothing at all. -- Patrick Henry...