Patrick Henry

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.”

“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.”

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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 distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”  [in a speech to the Continental Congress on Sept. 1, 1774]