Patrick Henry quote: "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!"

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY

The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY

Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY

If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY

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

This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one w...
PATRICK HENRY

There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in...
PATRICK HENRY

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our ...
PATRICK HENRY

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pain...
PATRICK HENRY

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ...
PATRICK HENRY

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know t...
PATRICK HENRY

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no...
PATRICK HENRY

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortu...
PATRICK HENRY

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give the...
PATRICK HENRY

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no wa...
PATRICK HENRY

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

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with ...
PATRICK HENRY

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could giv...
PATRICK HENRY

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
PATRICK HENRY

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
PATRICK HENRY

Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Tr...
PATRICK HENRY

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
PATRICK HENRY

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument...
PATRICK HENRY

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
PATRICK HENRY

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painf...
PATRICK HENRY

I am not a Virginian but an American.
PATRICK HENRY

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfor...
PATRICK HENRY

The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal...
PATRICK HENRY

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A...
PATRICK HENRY

Give me liberty, or give me death.
PATRICK HENRY

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfo...
PATRICK HENRY

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pai...
PATRICK HENRY

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

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of j...
PATRICK HENRY

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, ...
PATRICK HENRY

Give me liberty or give me death.
PATRICK HENRY

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their ruler...
PATRICK HENRY

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of ...
PATRICK HENRY

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole ch...
PATRICK HENRY

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until s...
PATRICK HENRY

I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our mo...
PATRICK HENRY

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was ...
PATRICK HENRY

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
PATRICK HENRY

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,...
PATRICK HENRY

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortu...
PATRICK HENRY

If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we ha...
PATRICK HENRY

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
PATRICK HENRY

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religi...
PATRICK HENRY

A school for future leaders,
PATRICK HENRY

I've known her 18 years. She's been a mentor and a friend and a great administrator, and I think she...
PATRICK HENRY

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY

That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed ...
PATRICK HENRY

We know Virginia is NASCAR country.
PATRICK HENRY

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation...
PATRICK HENRY

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace....
PATRICK HENRY

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblica...
PATRICK HENRY

We had some tough losses. Our goal this season was to win 20 games, and we figured we were going to ...
PATRICK HENRY

Our mission has been to enable the service providers and network operators to deploy uninterrupted v...
PATRICK HENRY

It took us three games to get one (good game), ... It really did. At times, we looked as young as we...
PATRICK HENRY

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
PATRICK HENRY

They tell us sir that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an advesary.But when shall we b...
PATRICK HENRY

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

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within prope...
PATRICK HENRY

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid i...
PATRICK HENRY

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it...
PATRICK HENRY

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adhere...
PATRICK HENRY

It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists,...
PATRICK HENRY

Will the adoption of this new plan pay our debts! This, Sir, is a plain question. It is inferred, th...
PATRICK HENRY

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
PATRICK HENRY

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
PATRICK HENRY

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know t...
PATRICK HENRY

Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmon...
PATRICK HENRY

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY

Sometimes I don't want to see the puppeteers, sometimes I just want to see the magic therein, and so...
PATRICK HENRY

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every g...
PATRICK HENRY PEARSE

From death springs life and from the graves of great patriots springs a great nation
PATRICK HENRY PEARSE

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
PATRICK HENRY PEARSE

To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is...
PATRICK HENRY REARDON

The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK

I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK

I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK

I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK

The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK

Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK

I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK

I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK

It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK

Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK

The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK

For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ...
PATRICK LENCIONI

Teamwork is a strategic decision.
PATRICK LENCIONI

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to ...
PATRICK SWAYZE

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sen...
PATRICK LENCIONI

There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. ...
PATRICK LEAHY

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i...
PATRICK LEAHY

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America&#...
PATRICK LEAHY

I'm a gun owner.
PATRICK LEAHY

Judiciary is where my passion is.
PATRICK LEAHY

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
PATRICK LEAHY

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug...
PATRICK LEAHY

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan...
PATRICK LEAHY

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why thin...
PATRICK LEAHY

Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
PATRICK KAVANAGH

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and tal...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
PATRICK KAVANAGH

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
PATRICK KANE

If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
PATRICK KANE

I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get...
PATRICK KANE

It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l...
PATRICK KANE

I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ...
PATRICK KANE

When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ...
PATRICK KANE

If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p...
PATRICK KANE

We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
PATRICK KANE

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha...
PATRICK KANE

Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin...
PATRICK KANE

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
PATRICK KANE

There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
PATRICK KANE

I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
PATRICK KANE

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
PATRICK KANE

I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i...
PATRICK KANE

The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE

I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h...
PATRICK KANE

Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li...
PATRICK KANE

I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.
PATRICK KANE

I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ...
PATRICK KANE

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you alway...
PATRICK KANE

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
PATRICK KANE

My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a...
PATRICK KANE

It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
PATRICK KANE

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ...
PATRICK GEDDES

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
PATRICK GEDDES

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul...
PATRICK FUGIT

Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d...
PATRICK FUGIT

There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am...
PATRICK FUGIT

If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz...
PATRICK FUGIT

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like...
PATRICK FUGIT

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K...
PATRICK FUGIT

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B...
PATRICK FUGIT

I'm not a very fast-paced person.
PATRICK FUGIT

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
PATRICK FUGIT

I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
PATRICK FISCHLER

I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
PATRICK FISCHLER

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th...
PATRICK FISCHLER

I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
PATRICK FISCHLER

I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Sca...
PATRICK FISCHLER

I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It...
PATRICK FISCHLER

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st...
PATRICK EWING

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstand...
PATRICK EWING

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
PATRICK EWING

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to ...
PATRICK EWING

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year c...
PATRICK EWING

Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
PATRICK EWING

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely o...
PATRICK EWING

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
PATRICK EWING

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity...
PATRICK EWING

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I...
PATRICK EWING

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&...
PATRICK EWING

Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
PATRICK EWING

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Sea...
PATRICK EWING

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
PATRICK EWING

Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
PATRICK EWING

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an...
PATRICK EWING

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eigh...
PATRICK EWING

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
PATRICK EWING

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the sma...
PATRICK EWING

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
PATRICK EWING

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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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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