I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.

About Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from...

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