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Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.