"Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel."

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Source : Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

Patrick Henry

#Freedom Quotes #Jealous Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.”
“If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.”
“Tests of love always end badly.”
“Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!”
“The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.”
“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.”
“At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”
“Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.79

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