Patrick Henry Quotes

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

The Civil War is a story about how some people clung to the past, while others sought the future.

The right of the revolution is the right of the future.

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

This young century will be liberty's century.

I want to make America better!

I'm ready for a different America.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

So moderates of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our pessimism. Either we make the future bury the past, or the bad guys will ensure that the past buries the future.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for and President Kennedy died for.

We are a people on a quest. We go and look for the kind of nation we want. The quest is the enduring American experiment. The meaning is in the seeking.

Where were the saints to try and change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but do away with slavery?

North America is the country where reason and humanity will develop more rapidly than anywhere else.

America Was Promises

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

The ancient liberal faith ... that our course be governed not by the dead hand of yesterday's facts and prejudices but by the living realities of today and our aspiration for tomorrow. It is this genius for making change serve the eternal unchanging values we cherish that is the very essence of American liberalism.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

I have no hesitation in believing that less than twenty years ago a man would have been mobbed and the printing office torn down for printing and publishing anything like ‘The Emancipator,’ whereas it now meets the approbation of thousands, and is patronized perhaps at least equal to any other in the state. But little by little, times are, much changed here, until societies, of respectable citizens have arisen to plead the cause of abolition; and instead of it being a disgrace to a man to be a member of these societies, it is rather a mark of the goodness of his heart, and redounds to his honor.

O black boy of Atlanta! But half was spoken; The slave's chains and the master's Alike are broken; The one curse of the races Held both in tether; They are rising--all are rising-- The black and white together.