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Quote DB :: Authors :: Patrick Henry :: View Quote View Quote "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!" - Copy to Clipboard   --  Patrick Henry Listed in: Freedom, Life & Death, War & Peace Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.36  Rate Quote 14 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Patrick Henry "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel." "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." "If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!" "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." "The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." Top 5 quotes from Freedom, Life & Death, War & Peace "Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago." "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." "Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." "A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." "It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families."

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