In Henry speech he criticized war and all the acts of Great Britain which claimed that they were done for love. However, the speaker believed otherwise. Britain feels that he was treated as an assistants and not as equals. It has been relying on into their country and Americans have had no choice from the very start. Argument and peaceful disagreement had saved them none in the past years. Allowing themselves to be losers, meanwhile, was simply a shame to their parts. In his speech Henry had convinced Virginia that all the acts they had done to accomplish peace had not worked, and is not working and will never work. The solution he saw was to fight, and to fight not soon but now. The battle, as he said, was to be strong, alert, active and bold
