So, did you know this........................?

"We don't really know much about him.  Patrick Henry's fame rests upon a single resounding sentence that rattles somewhat emptily in our heads, devoid of context and separated from the man.  We know, vaguely, that his oratory helped propel the colonies towards independence, but we have forgotten that a dozen years later his dissenting voice, directed against the proposed Constitution of 1787, nearly defeated the measure and forced its proponents to adopt the conciliatory amendments known as the Bill of Rights."
-from the preface to A Son of Thunder