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US Gov. S1 speeches
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| “But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?” | Thoreau-civil disobedience |
| “……. that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation............. | Abraham Lincoln- Gettysburg address |
| “………. unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us .... | JFK- inaugural speech |
| “There is a myth that though we love freedom, others don’t; that our attachment to Freedom is a product of culture; that freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law are American values, or Western values……Ours are not western values, they are.... | Tony Blair- speech to US congress |
| “…………. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life .... | FDR- first inaugural speech |
| “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ………..…..” | Declaration of Independence- Thomas Jefferson |
| “ …………. in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and …………..,” | Preamble to the Constitution of the U.S. |
| One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?"I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all." | Martin Luther king JR. letter from a Birmingham jail |
| “……………. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. ………………. every man is a ________, separated from his fellow men” | Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall speech |
| ”So it was for that band of patriots who declared in a Philadelphia hall the formation of a more perfect union; and for all those who gave on the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam their last full measure of devotion to save that same union. | Barak Obama Victory speach |
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