Virginia House Of Burgesses Quotes

#1. Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]

Patrick Henry

#2. How, then, did Virginia gentlemen persuade the voters to return the right kind of people to the House of Burgesses? How could patricians win in populist politics? The question can lead us again to the paradox which has underlain our story, the union of freedom and slavery in Virginia and America.

Edmund S. Morgan

#3. There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

Randy Pausch

#4. When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider - in a county with only 391 voters.

Tom Standage

#5. We must prepare for everything.

Chuck Hagel

#6. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

Neal Shusterman

#8. California is very much my home, and has been for the last eight yeas. It doesn't matter where I am, the inner me stays the same, home is wherever I happen to be living with Tracey, my companion of the last eighteen years.

Brian Williams

#9. Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There's no humiliation from which she cannot recover.

James A. Michener

#10. 'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.

Joe Johnston

#11. Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.

Ljupka Cvetanova