Why Patrick Henry?
We chose Patrick Henry to grace the masthead of our website because we believe he embodies the passion with which we pursue the mission of Right Principles. We also believe the political environment which inspired his great “give me liberty or give me death” speech is analogous to today’s in significant ways. Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech to the delegates to the Virginia Convention in March 1775. The convention was discussing an enumeration of grievances from the Stamp Act, to the Boston Massacre, to the Coercive Acts, which the colonists had with the British government. Those grievances had been presented to the Crown in a colonial petition. The delegates speaking before him were of the mind that the colonial government beast could be sated, grievances reconciled, and the general British oppression lifted. Henry contended that they were indulging in “illusions of hope.” The British gave the colonists’ petition an apparently gracious reception of calming words which Henry c
