Patrick Henry lays out the hard truth: Great Britain isn't going to hand out liberty and respect until they have to. But life without liberty is no way to live, so. If we want liberty, we're going to have to fight for it, and if we fight, we might die. In fact, they're going to get worse.Īnyhow, we don't have a choice. But the odds aren't going to get better if we sit around waiting. Sure, Henry says, the odds are against us. Fighting for peace is the only way we're going to get it. However, the colonies have been trying all that for ten years, and it hasn't worked. Trying every diplomatic channel there is to achieve peace is great. The American colonies are facing some big challenges and if he didn't speak his mind, he'd feel like he was in the wrong. He says he has mad respect for them, but that they're still wrong. Henry opens with an acknowledgement of the men who disagree with him. Yeah Henry wasn't big on tiptoeing around issues. John's Church in Richmond, Patrick Henry argued that a volunteer militia should be organized and armed in every county of Virginia to prepare to defend themselves from Great Britain. On March 23rd, 1775, at the Second Virginia Convention at St.
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