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" Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which... "
The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ... - Page 222
by John Pierpont - 1835 - 276 pages
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The National Speaker: Containing Exercises, Original and Selected, in Prose ...

Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 pages
...phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of...not fight our battles alone. There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for...
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America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations

William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pages
...to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! ....Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power....send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up...
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Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity

Tomi Suzuki - 1996 - 524 pages
...reveals that his metaphors of "battles" draw on a passage in Patrick Henry's "Liberty Speech" (1775): "Besides, Sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over die destinies of nations" (Kitamura Tokoku shu, p. 300). Tokoku s shift from politics...
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Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters ...

William John Bennett - 1997 - 440 pages
...delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of...shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for...
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Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard ...

Charles Sanders Peirce - 1997 - 322 pages
...sentence of Patrick Henry which, at the time of our revolution, was repeated by every man to his neighbor, Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty, and in such a country as we possess, are invincible against any force that the enemy can bring against us. Those words present...
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From the Ashes: America Reborn

William W. Johnstone - 1998 - 340 pages
...young man, what questions can I answer for you? 112 DANGER IN THE ASHES: Book #8 We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power . . . The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the...
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 pages
...God of nature hath placed in our power. Tbree millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liherty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any foree which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power....shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise friends to fight our battles for us....
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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original ...

Derek H. Davis - 2000 - 328 pages
...appeals to heavenly authority for a vindication of the colonists' rights. He urged the colonials to "make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power." He affirmed that "we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies...
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