“Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
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“Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!”
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“Give me liberty or give me death."
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!”
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“Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.”
― Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
― Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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