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Patrick Henry was a lawyer, orator, Patriot, and was always willing to participate in every aspect of the process of the founding of the great country called America!
His father John Henry took the responsibility to educate young Patrick at home, which included teaching him to read Latin, but his son studied Law on his own. He came to Williamsburg in 1760 for his Attorney's exam and passed it with out any difficulty.
Arguing the famous Parson's Cause in Hanover County in 1763, he stated that a king who would veto a good and necessary law made by a locally elected representative was not a father to his people but"a tyrant who forfeits the allegiance of his subjects" Henry increased his idea to the point of treason in defending his resolutions against the Stamp Act on May 30, 1765 in the House of Burgesses. So excited was he by the intensity of his own argument the ordinary appearing burgess from Lousia County called out "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the 1st his Cromwell, and George the 3rd... "At this point, cries of treason rose from all sides, but with hardly without a pause, Henry neatly " Baffled the charge and spoke out with a loud cry of strength" and brought the burgesses aboard to his cause. All of his five resolutions were approved, Henry achieved the position of the new leader in Virginia Politics. He saddled his horse, and rode west out of Williamsburg. (After he left town one of his resolutions was overturned.) Therefore Patrick Henry lead every protest against the tyranny of the British Crown and also a strong leader and advocate for Colonial rights.
Patrick Henry was a strong believer in citizens' right to bear arms! In March of 1775 he urged his fellow Virginians to arm themselves in self-defense, in which he closed his vehement appeal (uttered in St. John's Church in Richmond where the Virginia Legislature was meeting) with his great immortal words: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
The call to arms that Henry made met with protests of those members of the legislature more conservative in nature. His actions were the cause of the order made by Lord Dunsmore, The royal governor, for gunpowder to be removed from the Magazine. It was said of Henry "a Quaker in religion but the very devil in politics," he mobilized the militia to force to have the powder returned to the magazine. Henry's action followed very closely the British march On town of Concord by only hours, it was said to have marked the beginnings of the American Revolution in the commonwealth of Virginia.
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