"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!"
— Patrick Henry

"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."
— Patrick Henry

"It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!"
— Patrick Henry

"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
— Patrick Henry

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?"
— Patrick Henry

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole turuth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."
— Patrick Henry

"I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past."
— Patrick Henry

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
— Patrick Henry

"They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power."
— Patrick Henry

"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."
— Patrick Henry

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
— Patrick Henry

"The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery"
— Patrick Henry

"(Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that politics and morality were inevitably intertwined. Thus, the political structure ultimately rested on a religious foundation. The "great pillars of all government and of social life, "Henry once observed, are virtue, morality, and religion.""
— David J Vaughan

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
— Patrick Henry

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
— 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

"(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family."
— David J. Vaughan (Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry)

"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."
— Patrick Henry