I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
Patrick HenryThe question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
Patrick HenryYou ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.
Patrick HenryI know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.
Patrick Henry