| Quotes |
Topic |
| Immortality | He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. |
| 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. |
| Inspirational | It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren, till she transforms us into beasts. |
| Inspirational | I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. |
| Jewels | 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. |
| Judgment | I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. |
| Liberty | Give me liberty, or give me death. |
| Liberty | 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. |
| Liberty | I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. |
| Patriotism | I am not a Virginian but an American. |
| Patriotism | I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! |
| Government | 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. |
| Government | 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! |
| Government | Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? |
| Government | I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. |
| Treason | Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third-- may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. |
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