• The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

    Patrick Henry: The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention