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“Many years later an acquaintance [Timothy Pickering] recalled [in a letter to John Marshall, dated December 26, 1828] that Patrick Henry once told him 'that he could forgive everything else in Mr. Jefferson, but not his corrupting Mr. Madison.”
― Jon Kukla, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

“The rising greatness of our country is greatly tarnished by the general prevalence of deism, which with me, is but another name for vice and depravity....Amongst other strange things said of me,...I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of their number, and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of tory, because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics.' -- PATRICK HENRY, Letter to his daughter Elizabeth Aylett, August 20, 1796.”
― Jon Kukla, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

“Adversity toughens manhood--and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempted from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.' -- PATRICK HENRY, Letter to an unknown recipient, June 2, 1790”
― Jon Kukla, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

“My dear sister,' [Patrick] Henry wrote Annie Christian [May 15, 1786], while I am endeavoring to comfort you, I want a comforter myself.'...Henry [had] loved him [her husband William] like a 'friend and brother.' Together they would find consolation, Henry believed, only in 'the many precious lessons of piety given us by our honored parents' and their shared Christian faith....Henry offered his assurance that although they might never see one another again 'in this world,' they would surely 'meet in that heaven to which the merits of Jesus will carry those who love an serve him.”
― Jon Kukla