Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.
Patrick HenryMy political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?
Patrick HenryWhen the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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