Posted on 04/17/2019 8:07:51 AM PDT by Great Awakening
Throughout the course of history there have been many famous speeches that changed the world. From Jesus Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to the inaugural speeches of modern leaders, their words have become an inspiration to millions of people, especially in their darkest hours. Let us take a look at 25 speeches that changed the world.
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The Jimmy Carter Malaise Speech.
It was the one thing that really seemed to shake the country out of its sleepwalking into Democrat Liberalism which had dominated the 60’s and 70’s.
Hillary’s Basket of Deplorables speech. Probably kept her out of the White House.
My loving people,
We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.
I know already, for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns; and We do assure you on a word of a prince, they shall be duly paid. In the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over these enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.
Thank you!
Nice add.
I Have a Dream, one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard.
My favorite speech was the first thing out of the mouth on August 6, 1945, of the mayor of Hiroshima.....”What the ____ was that????”.
The most recent of these 25 is the President Ronald Reagan address to the Nation following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in January, 1986. Prior most recent is the MLK “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, less than 3 months before the assassination of JFK.
The last moon landing, inspired by JFK, was in December,1972. The Challenger disaster marked the beginning of the end of NASA under the Obummer administration.
For me, The JFK inaugural & MLK ‘I Have a Dream’ are both the most recent as well as the most influential speeches. I was alive then, but still very young, graduated HS in ‘61. Remember exactly where/what I was doing on November 22, 1963. As clearly as on 9/11 47+ years later.
JFK challenged the cabal as Trump is doing now. MLK challenged the establishment then.
What is different between then & now?
What inspires our Millennials?
Henry IV’s St. Crispin Day speech (”Band of Brothers”).
Lincoln’s 1858 “house divided”.
Teddy Roosevelt’s “Man in the arena”.
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
I would not have called the Sermon on the Mount a speech rather than a teaching moment.
Agree,
In a broader sense, speech is ‘speech’.
Same could be said for Lincoln’s ‘address’.
I’m not a proponent of intellectual property rights.
A single effort should not be re-rewarded in perpetuity.
How many times do you get paid for what you do?
Who owns what you have been paid to do?
On balance, I think IPR is a disincentive to ingenuity, inventiveness & overall progress of humanity.
The U.S. Patent Office is very questionable.
IMHO
The Evil Empire speech has some good things in it as well. Cromwell’s speech to parliament before he dissolved it could easily be spoken to our Congress.
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,
which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!”
What inspires our Millennials?
When I was a kid, the King James Bible was common knowledge throughout the English-speaking world—even for people who never set foot in a church. We have lost that touchstone of our common culture.
I agree and affirm: Jesus did not give speeches - ever.
Having asserted that, I will note that, contrary to Jorge Bergoglio recently in a categorical statement, Jesus was very often not at all silent.
I concur.
I was in grad school when Ronaldus Maximus made that speech.
I loved him before...and that speech took my admiration for him off the charts and reinforced my inner conservatism even though I was not cognizant of the term at that time.
The story behind the speech makes it even more compelling.
Four score and seven years ago...
Ronald Reagan’s “A Time For Choosing” had a strong effect on me personally...
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