MARCH 23

On this date in 1775, 240 years ago today, Patrick Henry delivered a speech to the Virginia State House of Burgesses at St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond.  In it, he vehemently encouraged Virginia to send troops and join the fight in a revolt against England.  Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, both future Presidents, were in the audience.

His speech (which can be read at this address, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death)
enumerates the evil that the English government was imposing on this colony and it ends with this famous line: "Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

Amen!
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