Okay, you're giving a speech about "just words"

[krispos42]

What great lines from important speeches do you use?

[jefferson_dem]

1. How about a Hillary montage of "35 years of change" and "ready" "solutions" for "invisible people"?

:shrug:

[krispos42]

3. He he he... not quite what I meant, though

I mean in the great orations of the 20th Century there are a select few that stand out. "Day of infamy", "I have a dream", "ask not what your country", "'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God'", "we will fight on the beaches", etc., are ones that almost everybody knows a least a few key parts of.

[MethuenProgressive]

2. Mark Twain: "Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. "

[krispos42]

7. That's a good one! n/t

[fishwax]

4. "You forgot Poland."

Just Words.

[alphafemale]

5. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" nt

[XemaSab]

6. Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth

one small step for a man, and one giant leap for mankind, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that it was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas. We dare not forget today that we are the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners, suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans. Well, then, some of you will say, and rightly, "Well, what did you use the fund for, Senator? Why did you have to have it?"

Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be. Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city. This much we pledge - and more.

It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress, who honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. We will accept nothing less than full victory, and when you're sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the war, you won't have to shift him to the other knee, cough, and say, "I shovelled shit in Louisiana." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "I am not a crook!" The Great Society rests on either the ballot or the bullet.

:patriot:

[XemaSab]

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