The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFavorite Speech?
What is one of your favorite speeches in real life and film? Here are my choses.
Winston Churchill, We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Bill Murray character's motivational speech during the parade prep in Stripes.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)"Germans?" "Shut up. He's on a roll."
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)...the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...in my opinion, the greatest speech in the English language...
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Very stirring, very moving.
Aristus
(66,352 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)n/t
Aristus
(66,352 posts)n/t
trueblue2007
(17,218 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,326 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)frogmarch
(12,153 posts)Thanks for posting this, Va Lefty. Now I don't have to.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I hadn't heard that speech before. I haven't seen this show but I will have to look it up.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)Winston Churchill "We Shall Fight..."
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)"Although we might not express it in these terms because we know better, we might say that these people are simply collateral damage, but we know too well that there is no such thing as collateral damage. There are only real people with faces and names and loved ones who may never heal because of our actions, and that is true whether their grief was inflicted by Tim McVeigh or by federal law enforcement or by us collectively."
Full text at this link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-nighs-statement-on-mcveigh/
Ptah
(33,029 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)(Applause)
We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will-we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
With-
(Interrupted by applause)
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)Fla Dem
(23,668 posts)June 26, 1963
<iframe width="854" height="480" src="
And less than 5 months before he was assassinated. What might have been.
madamesilverspurs
(15,801 posts)"Please proceed, Governor."
sarge43
(28,941 posts)YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)lastlib
(23,226 posts)7/25/74 House Judiciary Committe hearing on the Impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon:
1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address:
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Excerpts to follow...
Dwight Eisenhowers Farewell Speech:
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence economic, political, even spiritual is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dr. Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream:
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address:
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
kairos12
(12,861 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)it wasn't till 1980 that the republicans took the White House without a Nixon on the ticket.