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In the year 2020, one might wonder what influences inspired lawyer, statesman and Founding Father, Patrick Henry to prefer Liberty over life itself, and the means by which the “Lion of Liberty” acquired the powerful oratory that riveted the attention of Virginia’s Burgesses on his March 23, 1775 speech, which culminated in the impassioned argument, that inspired that distinguished body to adopt the resolution of the gentleman from Henry County, proposing that Virginia counties raise militiamen “to secure our inestimable rights and liberties, from those further violations with which they are threatened.”

In his chronicle of Democracy in America, French diplomat and political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville declared, “Religion gave birth to America.”