Audio Pick: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Patrick Henry’s speech, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, was given in March 1775 at the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond Virginia. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were among the delegates present to debate the issue of organizing a militia to resist Great Britain’s oppressive rule. I do not ever remember ever having heard or read the actual text of this speech before.
I can see how this speech might have been a deciding factor in committing Virginia troops to join Massachusetts troops to fight the British.

The speech can be downloaded for free from Learn-out-Loud at the link above. I found this audio file while searching for free audio books and discovered Learn-Out-Loud’s Founding Document’s Podcast. This looks to have been a great podcast but Learn-out-Loud has not added anything new to the schedule since April 2007, but I still look forward to listening to the half-dozen things they did post.