who said give me death or give me liberty
Patrick Henry
title: Give me liberty, or give me death! text: Give me liberty, or give me death! "Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. He is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the convention to pass a resolution delivering Virginian troops for the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. The speech was not published until "The Port Folio" printed a version of it in 1816. The version of the title: Or Give Me Death text: Or Give Me Death Or Give Me Death () is a 2003 work of historical fiction by Ann Rinaldi based on the possibility that the famous words of Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me death" may have been first spoken by his dying, mentally ill wife, whom he kept locked up in a cellar to prevent her from hurting anyone. The story is told through the eyes of his daughter, Patsy Henry. It is also told by his younger daughter, Anne Henry. Patrick Henry travels the American colonies, advocating independence from England. As the mother of a large title: Give Me Liberty text: Give Me Liberty Give Me Liberty is an American four-issue comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics in 1990. It was created and written by Frank Miller and drawn by Dave Gibbons. The title of the series comes from a famous quotation by Patrick Henry: "I know not what course others may take but — as for me — give me liberty or give me death." "Give Me Liberty" was one of Frank Miller's two creator-owned (the other was "Hard Boiled") titles he took to Dark Horse after deciding to stop working for DC Comics after a dispute over title: Give me liberty, or give me death! text: speech that is known today first appeared in print in "Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry", a biography of Henry by William Wirt in 1817. There is debate among historians as to whether and to what extent Henry or Wirt should be credited with authorship of the speech and its famous closing words. Whatever the exact words of Henry were, there can be no doubt of their impact. According to Edmund Randolph, the convention sat in silence for several minutes afterwards. Thomas Marshall told his son John Marshall, who later became Chief Justice of the United States, title: Give me liberty, or give me death! text: independence." There have been similar phrases used preceding Henry's speech. The play, "Cato, a Tragedy", was popular in the Colonies and well known by the Founding Fathers, who would quote from the play. George Washington had this play performed for the Continental Army at Valley Forge. It contains the line, "It is not now time to talk of aught/But chains or conquest, liberty or death" (Act II, Scene 4). The phrase "Liberty or Death" also appears on the Culpeper Minutemen flag of 1775.. In the opera Artemisia (1657) there is an aria called "Dammi morte o libertà" (lit:"Give me death