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Give Me Liberty #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250
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- Jun 9, 2026
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- 137
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Give Me Liberty #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. — Proverbs 28:1 THE STORY Most people know the last line. Very few know what came before it. Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention on March 23rd, 1775, is remembered for its thunderous conclusion: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" But the speech itself, delivered entirely from conviction, was a sermon as much as a political address. And that should surprise no one, because Patrick Henry was, in the most literal sense, a lay preacher. Henry had been shaped by the Great Awakening. As a young man he had sat under the preaching of Samuel Davies, the great Presbyterian revivalist of Virginia, and something had taken root that never left him. The speech opened with a warning against self-deception. He invoked the God who could see what men could not, "the lamp by which my feet are guided." And then, finally, the question no comfortable man wants to answer: Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? The room was silent. Then it erupted. THE REFLECTION There is a reason that speech still reverberates two hundred and fifty years later. It is not merely eloquence. It was spoken by a man who actually believed what he said. Henry's later years bear this out. His personal will explicitly left his children the Bible as their most valuable inheritance, more valuable than his lands or his money. He described his Christian faith not as a cultural inheritance but as a personal conviction. The boldness of the righteous, as Proverbs says, is not the boldness of the reckless. It is the boldness of the convinced, the man or woman who has settled something in the secre…