The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Patrick Henry

5 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obey'd. 0. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)-- To Myra. Tarquin and Cæsar had each his Brutus- Charles the First, his Cromwell-and George the Third-("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) -may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.— filed under Example
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.— filed under Experience
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.— filed under Judgment
Give me liberty, or give me death.— filed under Liberty
Bozzaris. I am not a Virginian but an American.— filed under Patriotism
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