"We have been trying.... We have held....Shall we resort... What terms shall we find.."
All of these combined quotes from Patrick Henry's Speech are examples of the fallacy argument from omniscience. This means that he uses words like "we" "our" "us" ect. to make it seem like everyone as a whole is going along with him. This is incorrect because most of the people he was speaking too did not want to follow him, so this is a fallacy.
This speech is effective because of the fallacy. Henry makes it seem like everyone is following him, and going along with what he is saying which is not the case at all. Because it seems like everyone is following, everyone really does start to listen to him and follow him.
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