I Have a DreamLincoln Memorial at Washington D.C. –August 28, 1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This […]
Votes for WomenJanuary 20th 1901 Ladies and Gentlemen – It is a small help that I can afford, but it is just such help that one can give as coming from the heart through the mouth. The report of Mr. Meyer was admirable, and I was as interested in it as you have been. Why,
The Ballot or the BulletApril 3rd 1964 Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can’t believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don’t want to leave anybody out. The question tonight, as I understand it, is “The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?” or What
Quit IndiaAugust 8th 1942 Before you discuss the resolution, let me place before you one or two things. I want you to understand two things very clearly and to consider them from the same point of view from which I am placing them before you. I ask you to consider it from my point of
Nobel Prize AcceptanceOslo, Norway, 10 December 2001 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen,Today, in Afghanistan, a girl will be born. Her mother will hold her and feed her, comfort her and care for her – just as any mother would anywhere in the world. In these
Abdication SpeechDecember 11th 1936 At long last I am able to say a few words of my own. I have never wanted to withhold anything, but until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to speak.A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as King and Emperor, and now that I have
Capture of Saddam HusseinDecember 14, 2003 Good afternoon. Yesterday, December the 13th, at around 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive. He was found near a farmhouse outside the city of Tikrit, in a swift raid conducted without casualties. And now the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice
Invasion of NormandyEngland – May 17th 1944 Men, this stuff some sources sling around about America wanting to stay out of the war and not wanting to fight is a lot of baloney! The Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. America loves a winner. America will
Duty, Honour, CountryAcceptance Speech for the Thayer Award fromWest Point, May 12, 1962 General Westmoreland, General Groves, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the Corps:As I was leaving the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, ”Where are you bound for, General?” and when I replied, ”West Point,” he remarked, ”Beautiful place, have you ever been
Rivers of BloodAnnual General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political CentreBirmingham, England, April 20, 1968 The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are
Eulogy for Robert f Kennedy Your Eminences, Your Excellencies, Mr. President:On behalf of Mrs. Kennedy, her children, the parents and sisters of Robert Kennedy, I want to express what we feel to those who mourn with us today in this Cathedral and around the world.We loved him as a brother, and as a father, and
Nazi’s Aim is SlaveryJanuary 29, 1940 Edouard Daladier, Premier of France, delivered this radio address to the people of France on January 29, 1940, after the Nazis had conquered Poland and just a few months before Hitler’s armies attacked France.At the end of five months of war one thing has become more and more clear.
Obituary to Princess DianaSeptember 9th 1997 I stand before you today, the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning, before a world in shock.We all are united, not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana, but rather in our need to do so, because such was her extraordinary
The Chance for PeaceApril 16th 1953 President Bryan, distinguished guests of this Association, and ladies and gentlemen: I am happy to be here. I say this and I mean it very sincerely for a number of reasons. Not the least of these is the number of friends I am honoured to count among you. Over
WWIIHouse of Commons, 7 May 1940 I intervene with reluctance in this debate. All my Honourable Friends know very well that I hesitated whether I should take part in it at all, because I thought it was more desirable that we should have a discussion in which Members not of front-bench rank should take a