Patrick Henry
Born May 29, 1736Studley, VirginiaDied June 6, 1799Charlotte County, Virginia
Politician, lawyer, public speaker
"If we wish to be free we must fight… Gentlemen may cry...
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"Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" by Patrick Henry
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Speech given March 23, 1775; excerpted from Patrick Henry, 1966
"Is life s...
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Patrick Henry (1736-1799), American orator and revolutionary, was a leader in Virginia politics for 30 years and a supremely eloquent voice during the American Revolution.Patrick Henry was born into a...
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Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention and its Purpose
One of the most famous speeches in the history of the United States is Patrick Henry's "liberty or death" speech. In Henry's speech...
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Martin Luther King Jr. made the cut, but Patrick Henry didn't when immigration officials narrowed the list of questions for a new citizenship test.Citizenship and Immigration Services released on T...
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Humorous Mike Huckabee has become the sum of all fears for many members of the GOP establishment. Some of the attacks arise out of plain old Christophobia, and Huckabee can't do much about that. Bu...
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Today is Friday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2007. There are 283 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry made his famous call for American independence fro...
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Today is Tuesday, May 29, the 149th day of 2007. There are 216 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 29, 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of B...
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Today is Friday, June 29, the 180th day of 2007. There are 185 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 29, 1776, the Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry ma...
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Today is Monday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2007. There are 133 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Cze...
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"Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety." -- Ben Franklin, 1776 In the wake of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks around t...
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Linda Leyendecker Gutierrez lives and works a few blocks from the Rio Grande and traces her lineage in two branches _ from one of this Spanish colonial city's oldest families and to Revolutionary W...
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I’m mad at the Met. Sure, it’s one of the world’s great museums. Tourists flock to its treasures, and New Yorkers, though perhaps a bit blasé about an institution in their ba...
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Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry: An Important Patriot's Persuasive Words
Officials set citizenship test questions
