QUESTION 7

Review the excerpt from Patrick Henry’s “St. John’s Church” speech:

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.

What is Henry claiming in the excerpt?

God made the colonists immortal.

Fighting for freedom is a holy cause.

Others will fight with the colonists.

Strength of the heart wins the war.