"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"

Okay, so I'm pretty sure we're supposed to put up notes/summaries of PDs onto Blogger now. I'm probably behind on that because I haven't put my notes of Thursday's ones up yet, because I turned in the documents and didn't get them back yet because I missed school on Friday...

Anyways, here's my notes of Friday's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"(Patrick Henry). I'll start each post with my annotations, and then finish with a summary.

Annotations(quotes from the document that I highlighted and notes I wrote in on the side):

"...the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings." (end of first paragraph) He is God-serving.

"Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we4 shows ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?" (upper middle third paragraph) It sounds like he's against using violence to get one's way.

"...the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament." (lower middle third paragraph) It seems to me that he dislikes Parliament.

"...if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight!" (end of third paragraph) He encourages to fight for their long struggle! But he means non-violently, right? Because earlier I believed that he was opposed to violence.

"Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power." (middle of fourth paragraph) He's confident in their power.

"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The is actually begun!" (beginning of last paragraph)

"...give me liberty or give me death!" (end of last paragraph) He values freedom over life.

Summary of Document:

Patrick Henry was getting his fellow colonists riled up for the fight for liberty. He was a patriotic and God-serving man. He tells his fellow gentlemen that they should not cry for peace anymore, because they will have no peace; a war is already upon them. He is confident in their power, and believes that they can do it -- they can win their struggle. In this document, he is trying to build up the same confidence in others, and get people to join together for a similar cause. Though, this document leaves me wondering how he thinks they should fight for this struggle of liberty? I'm supposing it would be verbally, through writing. It appeared to me that he was against taking violent means for the struggle.