Essay on "words as weapons" comparing Thomas Paine's Crisis Number 1 and Patrick Henry's speech.
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After the colonists in America decided that they were going to attempt a move towards freedom from British rule, they found themselves facing several different problems. Many of these problems dealt directly with the threat of a British invasion to quash such a revolution. However, the major problem was an internal one. The feelings varied among the different classed people. Many of these people may have viewed British rule as tyranny. Realistically, however, it would
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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 pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight!". This incites the people about the British treason. Henry ends it with the memorable quote, "Our chains are forged! The war is actually begun!...give me liberty or give me death!"
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 pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight!". This incites the people about the British treason. Henry ends it with the memorable quote, "Our chains are forged! The war is actually begun!...give me liberty or give me death!"