| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1922 |
| AUTHOR: | Patrick Henry (1736–99) |
| QUOTATION: | There is no longer any room for hope. 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!! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | PATRICK HENRY, speech to the Virginia Convention, Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775.—William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, 9th ed., p. 140 (1836, reprinted 1970).
For information on the authenticity of the text of this speech, see the notes at No. 1061. |
| SUBJECTS: | War |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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