Tuesday Open Thread: Henry Edition

Today, in 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his famous “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death Speech.” An excerpt:

If we wish to be free–if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained–we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!