Give Me Liberty
- When in the Course of Human Events,
- No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism.
- This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country.
- I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery.
- in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country.
- Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
- whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
- Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?
- Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing.
- If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending
- An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
- But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed?
- Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable.
- Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!
- Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
- I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
- Patrick Henry
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