What is your favorite political speech of all time?
My favorite is the Bobby Kennedy's Day of Affirmation speech, which was given to students in Cape Town, South Africa in 1966. Nothing else comes close to me. Here's a link to it. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/RFK/Day+of+Affirmation+Address+News+Release.htm What's your favorite?
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1 :
The Gettysburg Address, hands down.
2 :
JFK's Ask not speech. Peace
3 :
"I hereby resign the office of the Presidency, effective immediately." - President Barack Hussein Obama, at a time hopefully not too distant in the future.
4 :
Sermon on the Mount
5 :
The Farewell Speeches by George Washington, Woodrow Wilson, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Washington: Friend to all nations, entanglements with none. Wilson: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." Eisenhower: "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."
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Since it dealt with politics of the country, the I Have A Dream speech. As far as a speech *by* a politician, I like the Checkers speech by Nixon, just as an example of how people can be bamboozled; and JFK's first inaugural.
7 :
Winston Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches"
8 :
FDR's economic bill of rights speech
9 :
Checkers.
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