Give Me Liberty #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250
Give Me Liberty
#RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
— Proverbs 28:1
THE STORY
Most people know the last line. Very few know what came before it.
Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention on March 23rd, 1775, is remembered for its thunderous conclusion: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" But the speech itself, delivered entirely from conviction, was a sermon as much as a political address. And that should surprise no one, because Patrick Henry was, in the most literal sense, a lay preacher…
The skinny
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