49. “My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of ‘We, the People,’ instead of ‘We, the States’?”— Patrick Henry 50. “O sir, we should have fi...
Marc Caprio, supervisor of school counseling services at Henry P. Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford, NJ, said that because the emphasis in career advisement is almost always on “college, college, college,” students usually have no way of knowing that non-academic options like the...
Patrick Henry was one of theFounding Fathersof the United States and the first governor of Virginia. A gifted orator and major figure in the American Revolution, his rousing speeches—which included a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature in which he famously declared, “Give me liberty, or ...
Patrick Stewart. Actor: Logan. Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12.
“The war is actually begun!” Henry cried. “The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or pea...
Henry’s first biographer, William Wirt of Maryland, was three-years-old in 1775. An assistant federal prosecutor in Aaron Burr’s trial for treason at Richmond in 1807, and later attorney general of the United States, Wirt began to collect materials for the biography in 1808, nine years ...
Patrick Henry was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. He was elected to the First Continental Congress, which was a meeting of delegates from the original thirteen colonies. On March 23,1775, Henry gave a famous speech to the Congress. He urged the Congress to mobi...
“We ended up distributing it in a more traditional way, where I would travel all over the place with the film and do Q&As.”With films like “Trust,”“Amateur,” and “Henry Fool,” Hartley’s movies have never been about the money — but he’s always had his eye on the bottom...
especially this one, we were so overwhelmed by the understanding that the treatment called transplant was much more of a trading in of problems than the cure all the happy ending stories on TV had showed us.. we were so overwhelmed that we couldn’t even stand to talk to anyone that day...
Henry told the colonists that they were fighting for independence, a cause so just that it could stand up to the might of the British. He further reassured them by telling them that they had God on their side, an advantage the British did not have. As we all know of the early ...