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Show WHO SAID 4 X "I know ol no a .i ludgtng the future but lii past " Thus spoke Patrick Henry, the ' great statesman of the American Revolutionary- war. To Patrick Henry the promises of I tho British government to grant cer-tuln cer-tuln concessions to tho colonists did not carry great weight. To him the future could be read only In the light 1 of the past and in the j.ast the British ' treatment of the colonists had not I been sur h as to inspire In him any I desire to see tho relationship of mother country and colony continued. Patrick Henry is well known to history his-tory as a statesmen of no small abll- Ity but he rinds his greatest claim to I fame, perhaps. In his reputation as m orator. Few men in the history of j the United States have surpassed him. Certainly, no man of his time could lay claim i greater skill as a puon. speaker. Henry was bom In Virginia In 173G. He received a classical education ana, In the year 17G0, was admitted to Unbar Un-bar of his native state He rapidly assumed a prominent place in the struggle that was then brewing against the crown of England and when the Stamp Act was passed by the Brltloh I parliament Putrlck Henry spared himself him-self no effort to fight the enforcement enforce-ment of the act. in fact, to the strenuous stren-uous work nf Patrick Henry' may De I laid the fact that the act was never I putlsfacturlly enforced in the Amur- j lean colonies. Patrick Henry was the first go er-nor er-nor of the state of Virginia He died ! i mam |