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Show The Orator of the Revolution i (yt "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." Patrick Henry. "T70RBID.it, Almighty God!" " thundered Patrick Henry in the Virginia Convention at Richmond, Rich-mond, in 1775, in a speech typical of "the explosive temper of the time" "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" The orator of the Revolution had been found. It was Patrick Henry who established before the American Ameri-can people that government was a contract between King and people and that the violation of such contract con-tract by the King was truly an illegal act. |