Patrick Henry

of violence, you know what Richmond, Virginia is very famous for? I wouldn't say most famous for.

A founding father by the name of Patrick Henry said this.

You've probably heard of this.

Give me liberty or give me death.

But folks, Christianity is no longer the primary component of our social fabric.

And if I can borrow the words of Patrick Henry, we'll either hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

We don't have the luxury of that kind of arrogance any longer.

The Jewish people have suffered across history, across history.

It's so much easier to look at another story and say, oh my gosh, that was so traumatic.

I can't believe what, we'll take Patrick Henry and his first wife, Sarah Shelton.

I can't believe what happened to her and the trials and tribulations she underwent.

It's so much easier to look at that from the outside than it is to say, oh my gosh.

Talk about No taxation without representation.

That's where it started, there and with Patrick Henry in Virginia.

And we're just not seeing it.

How do we see it, though? I mean, where do we go from here? You know, you had a chapter in your book that was called To Everything There's a Season.

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The son of liberty, Patrick Henry, also noted as a prophet, said, "'Bad men cannot make good citizens.

It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.

A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.'" No free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Have you read their letters? Have you actually taken the time to not listen to what someone said about them, but read, look up what John Witherspoon said about Christianity and tell me whether he was a deist or not.

Look at what Patrick Henry said about Christianity and look up Washington Circular in 1783 and and tell me that George Washington was a deist when he talks about the divine author being Jesus.

I mean, so it's like, I just, you know, anyone- It's absurd,

right? It's just absurd.

which enrages ordinary people and it enrages the big speculators, people who've just sent surveyors into the Ohio Valley, the land of the Shawnee and the Delaware, and said, you know, do that.

And these big speculators are, as the scholar Colin Calloway says in our film, household names, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, you know, Patrick Henry.

These are people who expect to then make a killing selling that land to those immigrants who want to establish 125 acre farm or whatever it is they want.

So there's, first of all, and you have to central, you have to center Indian land as the principal factor in the agitation.

So all y'all out there that say you have no choice, but the founders showed you.

It was Patrick Henry that said, Give me liberty or give me death.

And on that fateful night when George Washington had to cross the Delaware River in the ice and the snow or the American Revolution would be lost.

They said, General, what are the passwords? He said, victory or death.