Patrick Henry Quotes

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Only freedom can make security secure.

I think democracy is a universal idea and I think letting people rule themselves happens to be something that serves America and America’s interests.

The war has proved that our free government, like other free governments, though slow in its early movements, acquires in its progress a force proportioned to its freedom.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The will of the people... is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object

Know that as I could not submit to stoop before the sovereigns of Europe, so I came to hazard all the freedom of America, and desirous of passing the rest of my life in a country free and before settling as a citizen, to fight for liberty.

If we always looked to contemporary public opinion we would be a slaveholding British colony today.

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?

Today we put liberty on lay-away.

It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.

Every voter in Ukraine should have their say on the future they want for their country.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.

All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.

I think that when you look at our founding principles, it was based on America as a nation committed to universal human rights and a nation that was weary of foreign entanglements and foreign alliances that did not keep us safe or promote our interests.