March 23, 1775 - Patrick Henry
...I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
...If we wish to be free--we must fight!
...They tell us...that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?
Will it be the next week, or the next year?
Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a...guard shall be stationed in every house?
...Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs...until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
...millions of people, armed in the...cause of liberty... are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
...Besides...we have no election
...There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!
...The war is inevitable--and let it come!
...Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
...I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

~ LEVER DOD - AS SKLAV! ~
~ WE PREFER TO BE DEAD -
THAN TO BECOME A SLAVE! ~

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