Patrick Henry’s ‘Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!’ Speech

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry announced one of the most important and dramatic speech in American history. Henry urged them to do as the Virginia Parliament discussed whether the army should be sent to fight in the revolutionary war. "Please give me freedom, or die for me!" He broke his confidence and avoidance of his representative and requested it.

"What do gentlemen want?" [Henry] laughed at him as if he was doing helpless attitude, with his head down and crossing his wrist. "Life is so precious and peace is very sweet.Do you buy at the cost of chains and slaves, Almighty God, forbid it! But for me - freedom to me Give me death or give me death! "The word" freedom "resonates in a quiet shelter, he stops and defeats his arms, after which he imaginatively reflects the hero's Roman virtue I hit my chest with a dagger.

"Freedom or death" has become the motto of the revolution. After 6 years of battle, many Americans died, and most people gained freedom.

You will find the reason for the revolution on this website. The links to important history files are as follows. Please read the Declaration of Independence to understand Patrick Henry's "Please give me freedom" speech, the resolution of the first Continental Congress, and the disappointment of colonists' British policy. Find more documents on the political page of the Virginia colony and read the summary of George III and the colonization of George III and the National Assembly's retreat and disappointment. As soon as the end of the war in France and India in 1763 the British government collected additional taxes and tried to reduce the debts incurred during the war by obtaining more control over the colony Disappointment of colonialists began. The "Labor Tax Law" in 1765 is such a measure. It imposes a consumption tax on newspapers, customs documents, licenses, university diplomas and most legal documents.

I have read other "landmark" documents such as "Stamp duty tax law" written in 1765 and Patrick Henry's "please give me freedom" speech, but the problem solved is very different If it is, it is the same as what is in the declaration. During human events, it is necessary to disassemble the political bands connecting them to other people, to assume an independent equal place of nature and natural law in the power of the earth. God gives them rights, and respecting human opinion requires them to announce the reason for their separation.