The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the active, the vigilant, the brave!” - Patrick Henry. A noted orator, ...
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond to plead with Virginia’s revolutionary government to prepare for a war that he saw as inevitable. Four weeks before Lexington and ...
Here’s what we know: On March 23, 1775 — probably in the afternoon — a self-taught lawyer named Patrick Henry arose in a little white church in Richmond and unleashed a scorching, wig-blasting, Flying ...
NEW KENT — The 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry and his Hanover County volunteer militia’s march through New Kent County en route to Williamsburg to confront royal governor Lord Dunmore will be ...
Editor’s Note: This article is part of “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment. Patrick Henry is generally treated as a second-string Founding Father. He ...
The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in China to those who opposed COVID-19 restrictions in the U.S. in 2020. Malcolm ...