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is what we are above all:  we are not Virginians, but Americans.

I am not a Virginian, but an American.PATRICK HENRY (1736-1799) Speech in the First Continental Congress, Philadelphia 1774

is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. Patrick Henry

Fear is the passion of slaves. Patrick Henry

is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce, as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship

is essential to a life worth living. Death is preferable than life purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

Is life so dear, or peaceful 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! PATRICK HENRY (1736-1799) Speech at the Virginia Convention (There is some question whether Henry ever used these words, which were first reported five decades later by his biographer William Wirt.) March 23, 1775

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