Great Speeches You May Not Have Heard

BONO’S REMARKS TO THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
*** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY ***
Washington February 2 2006
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house… God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives… God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war… God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.” [more]

JOHN F. KENNEDY
SPEECH TO HOUSTON MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
*** I BELIEVE IN AMERICA ***
Houston September 12, 1960
Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end, where all men and all churches are treated as equals, where every man has the same right to attend or not to attend the church of his choice, where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind, and where Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, at both the lay and the pastoral levels, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood. [more]

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
REMARKS AT THE U.S. RANGER MONUMENT
Pointe du Hoc June 6, 1944
“Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it?” [more]

ROBERT F KENNEDY
ON THE DEATH OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
Indianapolis, April 4 1968
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.” [more].

RICHARD NIXON
*** CHECKERS SPEECH ***
TV broadcast - September 23, 1952
“I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.” [more].

WINSTON CHURCHILL
*** DIEU PROTÉGÉ LA FRANCE ***
BBC broadcast, London, October 21, 1940

“Good night then: Sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly it will shine on the brave and true, kindly upon all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.” [more].

PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY
REMARKS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY AT THE TRADE MART DALLAS
November 22nd 1963

“We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of ‘peace on earth, good will toward men.’ " [more]

IRISH PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE
DUBLIN, EASTER SUNDAY 1916
“We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.” [more]

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
REMARKS TO THE CONVOCATION OF THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN MEMPHIS *** WHAT WOULD MARTIN LUTHER KING SAY ***
November 13, 1993
“But he would say, I did not live and die to see the American family destroyed. I did not live and die to see 13-year-old boys get automatic weapons and gun down 9-year-olds just for the kick of it. I did not live and die to see young people destroy their own lives with drugs and then build fortunes destroying the lives of others. That is not what I came here to do. I fought for freedom, he would say, but not for the freedom of people to kill each other with reckless abandon, not for the freedom of children to have children and the fathers of the children walk away from them and abandon them as if they don't amount to anything. I fought for people to have the right to work but not to have whole communities and people abandoned. This is not what I lived and died for.” [more]

CHRISTOPHER REEVE
1996 Democratic NATIONAL CONVENTION ADDRESS *** NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE ***
Chicago IL, August 26, 1996
“Now, on the wall of my room when I was at rehab, there was a picture of the Space Shuttle blasting off, and it was autographed by every astronaut now at NASA, and on the top of that picture, it says, "We found nothing is impossible."
IRISH PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE
DUBLIN, EASTER SUNDAY 1916
“We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.” [more]

 

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