Patrick Henry Quotes About Politics
-
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
→ -
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 liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
→ -
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.
→
Related Authors
-
Benjamin Franklin Founding Father of the United States -
Alexander Hamilton Founding Father of the United States -
Roger Sherman United States Representative -
John Hancock Former President of the Continental Congress -
George Grenville British statesman -
Richard Henry Lee Former President of the Continental Congress -
George III Monarch -
Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President -
George Washington 1st U.S. President -
George Mason Statesman -
Paul Revere Silversmith -
Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States -
James Madison 4th U.S. President -
Samuel Adams Founding Father of the United States -
John Adams 2nd U.S. President -
Marquis de Lafayette Political figure -
John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. President -
Mercy Otis Warren Writer -
James Monroe 5th U.S. President -
Thomas Paine Author