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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!: Paragraph 5 Summary

Why Are We Still Talking About This?

  • Really, Henry wants to know, why are we still talking about this?
  • The war is here. The time is now.
  • Henry throws shade at the other members of the convention in another Shmoop paraphrase: "Others are already fighting! Why are we still sitting here? Are life and peace and your stuff so important to you that you'd be a slave to keep them? Not me."
  • Then he ends with the most famous colonial mic drop: give me liberty or give me death.