Speech in the Virginia Convention. March, 1775.

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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Speech in the Virginia Convention. March, 1775.

Footnotes

[428:1] I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!—Webster: Speech, July 17, 1850.

[428:2] See Burke, page [411].

EDWARD GIBBON.  1737-1794.

The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.[430:1]