Posted on 11/19/2013 4:47:38 PM PST by dynachrome
Q: 150 years after President Lincoln delivered “The Gettysburg Address,” the speech is still celebrated. What other historic speech is as significant?
Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream”
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s farewell address to Congress
None of the above
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6. Hawkeye’s eulogy for Capt. Tuttle.
Oh, I got an iPod off ebay-uk with all of Obama’s speeches on it. I erased them.
Once upon a time, the Democrats rallied against the elites, the one percent. Their champion was William Jennings Bryan. This speech at the 1896 Dem. convention, spoke to the good versus evil angels in the party. The evil angels won but Bryant’s speech, Cross of Gold, was once recognized as one of the best in American history:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/
>>h, I got an iPod off ebay-uk with all of Obama’s speeches on it. I erased them<<
How did you remove the stench, though?
Actually, the most influential political speech I ever heard, the one that caused me to become a republican, was Ronald Reagan’s 1964 “A Time for Choosing” speech in support of Barry Goldwater, commonly referred to today by conservatives as simply “The Speech.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
It gives me chills even today when I hear it.
Would that be the one where he blamed Benghazi on the video?
“...December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy...”
and Lincoln's message to congress before the emancipation
"Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.....We -- even we here -- hold the power, and bear the responsibility."
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