Quote#Freedom
Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword…
Quote byPatrick Henry · 1736–1799
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in The Debates in the Several States Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution also known as Elliot's Debates, Jonathan Elliot, edit. (1941) J. B. Lippincott Co., pp. 168-169, originally published in 1836.
English (original)
Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.
— Patrick Henry
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