Patrick Henry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches o ...

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask w ...

I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider mys ...

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider mys ...

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the ...