(PJ Media) “Liberty or death!” That was the stark choice that Patrick Henry proposed to his fellow Virginia delegates 250 years ago today. It was a challenge the Founding Fathers and the Revolutionary Army accepted, and thus a new nation was born.
How remarkable that it has been two and a half centuries since a small group of farmers, shopkeepers, politicians, mariners, and slaves banded together into a ragtag army to take on the world’s most powerful empire on behalf of liberty. The Revolution was years in the making, but electrifying speeches from fiery Patriot orators in the months leading up to Lexington and Concord spurred the political conflict to a military crisis, and not one of these speeches is as famous as that delivered by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775, in St. John’s Church. (Read More)
