Select the correct text in the passage.
The excerpt is taken from Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775. Which
sentence in the excerpt suggests that Patrick Henry
believed the resources available to the colonists were adequate to engage in armed
resistance
against Britain?
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the
next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed
, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by
irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means
of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the
delusive phantom of
hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and
foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the
God
of nature
hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed
in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess,
are
invincible
by any force which our enemy can send against
us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides
over the
destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our
battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant,
the active,
the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were basenough
to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat
but
in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their
clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I
repeat it, sir, let it come.