give me liberty or give me death who said it

The famous line “Give me liberty or give me death!” is attributed to American revolutionary orator Patrick Henry.

Who said it?

• The quote comes from a 1775 speech by Patrick Henry, delivered to the Second Virginia Convention at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.

• In that speech, Henry urged the Virginia colony to prepare for armed resistance against Great Britain, arguing that war was inevitable and that liberty was worth risking death.

A tiny bit of context

• The line is the dramatic closing of Henry’s speech, which helped convince the convention to support raising Virginian troops for what became the American Revolutionary War.

• The exact wording was not written down at the time; the speech was reconstructed years later, but the phrase has since become one of the most iconic slogans of the American Revolution.

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