Patrick Henry Quotes

Give me liberty or give me death!

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

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigour of commerce as it is to the health and vigour of citizenship.

freedom

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!

freedom

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.

experience

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

history