Virginia Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Virginia.
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“Virginia is for lovers.”
“VA? Now, that sounds great.”
“Virginians typically treated their slaves harshly.”
“Virginia, hail, all hail! Virginia, hail, all hail!”
“Carry me back to old Virginia; there let me live 'till I wither and decay.”
“Save for defense of my native state, I never desire again to draw my sword.”
“H to the izz-o, v to the izz-a. For shizzle my nizzle, used to dribble down in VA.”
“On the whole, I find nothing anywhere else... which Virginia need envy.”
“Even though the [Virginian] state had slaves, the Founders proclaimed all men had equal rights.”
“The prevailing Notion now is to Continue the most abject State of Slavery in this Common-Wealth...”
““Virginia?” he said, as if I had asked him if there was anywhere local we could get a dose of syphilis.”
“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”
“Better, far better! Endure all the horrors of civil war than to see the dusky sons of Ham leading the fair daughters of the South to the altar.”
“Our story actually begins at Jamestown, as almost all Virginia stories do... yes, even the story of Hampden-Sydney's College Presbyterian Church.”
“In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks, even freemen, could not own guns.”
“I am no more a child, but a man; no longer a confederacy, but a nation. I am no more Virginia, New York, Carolina, or Massachusetts, but the United States of America.”
“Virginia led the way among the colonies in excluding blacks from militia service, when the House of Burgesses required in January 1639 that only white Virginians arm themselves.”
“Sir, the great question which is now uprooting this Government to its foundation, the great question which underlies all our deliberations here, is the question of African slavery.”
“Today, I offer the Commonwealth's sincere apology for Virginia's participation in eugenics. We must remember the Commonwealth's past mistakes in order to prevent them from recurring.”