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Select the correct text in the passage.Which sentence in this excerpt from Patrick Henry's famous "liberty or death" speech at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 emphasizes theAmerican colonists' efforts to avoid war?Speech to the Second Virginia Conventionby Patrick Henry (excerpt)Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. Welhave petitioned: we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored itsInterposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry, and Parliament. jOur petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have producedadditional violence and insult; our supplications have been displmarded: and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of theEVREEEZAthronet in vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There i no longer any room for hope. If we wishto be free- we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contendingif we mean not basely toabandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the gloriousobject of our contest shall be obtained-we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is leftustResetNext