1775
Patrick Henry, in a portrait of about 1891 after Thomas Sully.Image: George Bagby Matthews, after Thomas Sully · Public domainpolitics · Americas
Patrick Henry: ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’
On 23 March 1775 the Second Virginia Convention met in St John’s Church in Richmond, away from the royal governor in Williamsburg. Patrick Henry rose to urge that Virginia raise a militia and put itself in a state of defence against Britain. His speech is said to have ended with the words ‘give me liberty, or give me death!’ Nobody wrote it down at the time: the text we know was pieced together from listeners’ memories for a biography published in 1817. The resolutions passed, and within a month war had begun at Lexington and Concord.
Source: Encyclopedia Virginia: ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!’ ↗
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