Patrick Henry – Best Quotes

Truth

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.

Jealousy

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are inevitably ruined.

Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are inevitably ruined.

Great

The great object is that every man be armed.

Patrick Henry

The great object is that every man be armed.

Future

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Freedom

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

Patrick Henry

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

Fear

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Patrick Henry

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Family

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.

Patrick Henry

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.

Family

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Patrick Henry

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Experience

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

Patrick Henry

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

Death

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

Patrick Henry

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

Death

Give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Give me liberty or give me death.

Death

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

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!

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Author: Patrick Henry

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are inevitably ruined.

The great object is that every man be armed.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

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

Fear is the passion of slaves.

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.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

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.

Give me liberty or give me death.

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!