Patrick Henrys speech to the Virginia convention inspired not only those there, but people all over. Everyone was emotionally convinced by Patrick’s inspiring words. Patrick Henry changed history forever in Virginia March 23, 1775. Everyone knew him by his most famous words “Give me Liberty or give me death”. The motivation for this speech was to incite the determination of the Virginia house members to get there army and such to fight against the british.Henrys speech was highly convincing and later became the best speech in history. In Patrick’s speech he said “I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery” he is using “it” to create an emotional appeal because he wanted to convince that the only way to get rid of the
