Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine were the infrastructure of the revolutionary movement against their homeland, Great Britain. Patrick Henry was a governor of Virginia who became famous for his presence as a persuasive speaker in the Virginia House of Burgess. One of the most complex works he used to involve Congress in the war was delivered before the Convention on March 23, 1775, Address to the Virginia Convention. He proposed a proposal to the Convention as he saw them moving towards a diplomatic approach, but Henry saw that war was inevitable and they had to throw themselves into the fight. In contrast, Thomas Paine made his purpose clear in writing The Crisis, No. 1. Paine was a passionate political activist with a niche for radial articles. His audience differed from that of Henry, who appealed to politicians and had to evoke the logical side to increase credibility within the Convention. Paine must have restored the spirits of soldiers battered and tired by the long periods of war and the brutal winter. Strikingly, soldiers endured bouts of depression brought on by feelings of defeat and loss of time with family. Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine knew they had to arouse fighting spirits in the people, which enabled domination of a country thousands of miles away. Henry and Paine tended to move people with graphic, thought-provoking works brimming with rhetoric and figurative language that stirred the souls of their diverse audiences to ignite the war for freedom. In a speech to the Virginia Convention, Henry appeals to ethos in the beginning by telling the president of the Virginia Convention: "No one has a higher opinion than I of the patriotism, as well as the abilities, of the very worthy gentleman who... middle of paper...... it is so that our children have peace in their day. A father, a mother who doesn't fight for peace because the children are unfit and in those days family was almost all you had. Paine and Henry contributed magnificently to the freedom struggle in the 1770s and used words to bring the slight tumult to a boil. boil. These two revolutionaries will forever be known in history as the spearhead of today's America. These highly educated men noticed that the evidence in front of their audience was not sinking into their minds and they needed someone brave enough to say what was happening rather than having it on their side and walking past. Henry and Paine tended to move people with graphic, thought-provoking works brimming with rhetoric and figurative language that stirred the souls of their diverse audiences to ignite the war for freedom..