Quote of the Day (Patrick Henry, on Judging the Future by the ‘Lamp of Experience’)

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”—Virginia orator, governor, and revolutionary patriot Patrick Henry (1736-1799), speech to the Virginia Convention, Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775, in William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, 9th ed., pp. 138–39 (1836, reprinted 1970).