How was it that Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the Deceleration of Independence? It started with a vote for who should be involved in the writing. The two people with the most votes were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson offered to let John Adams write the first draft of the Deceleration of Independence, Adams refused saying that there were three reasons Thomas Jefferson should write it instead of him. The first was that Thomas Jefferson was from Virginia and that a Virginian should be at the center of it. The second was that a lot of people didn't like John Adams and that wasn't the case for Thomas Jefferson. The third, John Adams claimed that Jefferson could write ten times better than he could. So the job was given to Thomas Jefferson.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Friday, January 8, 2016
Patrick Henry's Famous Speech.
Patrick Henry is famous for a speech he gave while leading opposition against the stamp act. Patrick Henry was born poor with out the resources to be taught literature, but what he had was a love for his country. A love that would give him strength to stand up to the powerful British.
"If we wish to be free; if we mean to persevere 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! To say Patrick Henry had a way with words would be an understatement. He delivered a speech that would be quoted for centuries.
Patrick Henry encouraged people to take a stand saying, "They tell us, sir, that we are weak- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? will it be next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when British guard shall be stationed in every house? shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?... Sir, we are not weak, if we make proper use of those means which God of nature hath placed in our power." Probably his most known quote is what he finished his speech with, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
"If we wish to be free; if we mean to persevere 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! To say Patrick Henry had a way with words would be an understatement. He delivered a speech that would be quoted for centuries.
Patrick Henry encouraged people to take a stand saying, "They tell us, sir, that we are weak- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? will it be next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when British guard shall be stationed in every house? shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?... Sir, we are not weak, if we make proper use of those means which God of nature hath placed in our power." Probably his most known quote is what he finished his speech with, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
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