During a speech before the second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry responds to the increasingly oppressive British rule over the American Colonies by declaring, “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!.
Patrick Henry rousing speech to the Virginia delegation is credited with convincing the convention to pass a resolution to provide Virginia troops for the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia. More
