"Dr. Martin Luther King said in the 1963 March on Washington, 'We have come to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.'"
"Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers set forth upon this nation."
"Roosevelt addressed the nation by radio on navy day, saying, 'We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot. In the long run, however, all that will matter is who fired the last shot.'"
"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
"We shall go on to the end...we shall never surrender."
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things not because it's easy but because they're hard."
"I am come…to live and die amongst you all – to lay down for my God, and for my kingdoms, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust."
"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king – and of a King of England too."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin Roosevelt
"The only thing you have to fear is fear itself."
"I would encourage people to listen to that RFK clip where he describes... it's pretty factual and it's very scary."
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in the streets, and on the hills. We shall never surrender."
"Is there no redress, no peace, nor justice for us? Teach us what to do, for I am sorely, bitterly disgusted." - Ida B. Wells
"I want so badly to do something great for my people, and I thought I had, but now with this, I feel that justice is no longer on our side." - Ida B. Wells
"Martin Luther King improvised 'I have a dream.'"
"Remember Dwight Eisenhower when he was departing office he said in his farewell speech beware the military-industrial complex."
"Beyond Vietnam was the speech he delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967. In it, Dr. King called the United States 'the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.'"
"I pledge you a New Deal for the American people."
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its Creed."
"No matter how bad things get I Adolf Hitler have the willpower."
"The American public deserved a better explanation." - Gerald R. Ford
"If that is to be the case, German military power must be irretrievably crushed, this is the end we must obtain if we have the will and the guts to see it through." - Arthur Currie
"To his beloved country he offered his 'blood, toil, tears and sweat.'"
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears."
"He's delivering a speech in 1946 and he comes up with the phrase the iron curtain."
"FDR famously says, 'Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.'"
"The only thing we have have to fear his fear itself."
"President Kennedy said by the end of this decade..."
"We shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets, and on the hills. We shall never surrender."
"It is not as a woman descended from noble ancestry but as one of the people that I'm avenging lost freedom, my scourged body, the outraged chastity of my daughters. This is a woman's resolve."
"He wanted to give a renewed purpose to the war so that these dead shall not have died in vain."
"It becomes us as a Christian people... to remove from our midst an institution no less the cause of moral corruption to the master than to the slave." - Elijah Parish Lovejoy
"The young monarch made a speech to the fledgling United Nations Assembly, acknowledging the difficulties it faced in its pursuit of peace."
"Pericles funeral oration has gone down in history as one of the all-time great war speeches."
"I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you."
"It was a shock, on june the 4th, in a great debate in the house of commons churchill announces solemnly that if necessary england will fight to the end."
"We choose to go to the Moon: a famous line from President John F. Kennedy's speech."
"FDR gave his famous speech about the 'date that will live in infamy'."
"We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans."
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in Memphis on April 3rd, 1968, the night before he was assassinated."
"America has a choice. Martin Luther King said this in his last speech that he was writing right before he got killed. This speech never came out, and Martin Luther King said that America is going to be at a pivot point."
"The Gettysburg Address would become one of the most famous speeches in American history."
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
"The enemy will endeavor to intimidate by show and appearance, but remember that with so just a cause, victory is most assuredly ours." --General George Washington.
"We shall defend our island and with the British Empire around us we shall fight on, unconquerable."
"We shall fight them on the beaches, that evolve to their Duty if nothing is neglected and the best arrangements are made as they are being made."
"Before he left office in 1961, he gave a memorable speech that today appears as a lucid prophecy: 'This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.'"
"Every word of my speech today was originally spoken by our esteemed colleague the senior senator from New York Chuck Schumer."
"Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment." - John F. Kennedy
"The evil empire speech made the Soviets feel that something is really brewing."
"And to look back, the original Comdex speech that Bill Gates laid out, a plan that seemed like science fiction, but if technology's progress is hot as anything, it's that sometimes that science fiction leads to fact."
"President Roosevelt gave a fiery speech at the time blaming the wealthy for having caused the financial distress of the country."
"When Ronald Reagan took Gorbachev tear down these walls it didn't take long and the walls came down and the iron curtain collapsed..."
"The first speech on the 18th of June 1940 of General Charles de Gaulle… constitutes a seminal moment in the collective historical consciousness of France."
"Jefferson in his first inaugural address said, 'We possess a chosen country...'"
"306 days ago the then president of the United States of America Abraham Lincoln delivered what some have called the most powerful statement uttered in the English language with the Gettysburg address."
"...let us strive to finish the work we're in to bind up the nation's wounds and care for him who shall have borne the battle."
"I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace."
"Lincoln spoke for two minutes and 272 words, and the words he said are forever remembered."
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace... come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open it up, tear down this wall!"
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
"I have a dream, Martin Luther King."
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
"One thing I will always remember about you is when you recited the Gettysburg Address by memory."
"It was 1939, Great Britain had declared war on Germany, and the British monarch addressed the world on the radio."
"I'll fight them on the beaches, I'll fight them on the landing grounds."
"Some present-day Americans actually talk a bit like how William Shakespeare might have spoken."
"I may challenge the whole orations of dependencies... to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan."
"We will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children... will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
"This government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
"Kennedy got up before Congress and gave arguably one of the most clear and compelling goals that any leader has ever given."
"The Emperor's speech to his people after the war included a line that would serve as a kind of model for the rebuilding Japanese society."
"He spoke out to denounce the tyrannical actions of the king and to demand reforms limiting royal power."
"I will fight them on the beaches, we'll fight them on the streets, we will never surrender."