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.