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FAMOUS SPEECHES
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "I HAVE A DREAM" | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. |
| "APPEAL OF JUNE 18" | CHARLES DE GAULLE (1940) |
| "THE BALLET OR THE BULLET" | MALCOLM X |
| "FOUR FREEDOMS SPEECH" | FDR : STATE OF THE UNION, JANUARY 6, 1941 |
| "GAZIMESTAN SPEECH" TO MARK THE 600TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF KOSOVO | SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC |
| "FUNERAL ORATION SPEECH" RECORDED IN THUCYDIDES' HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR | PERICLES |
| "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!" | PATRICK HENRY: VA. HOUSE OF BURGESSES |
| "TOTAL WAR SPEECH" (SPORTPALAST SPEECH) | GOEBBELS (1943) |
| "THE GREAT AVENUES WILL OPEN AGAIN..." WAS THE LAST SPEECH BY THIS SOUTH AMERICAN LEADER | SALVADOR ALLENDE |
| "BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS, AND SWEAT" | CHURCHILL |
| "WE SHALL FIGHT ON THE BEACHES..." | CHURCHILL |
| "THIS WAS THEIR FINEST HOUR..." | CHURCHILL |
| "HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME..." | CASTRO : HE RECONSTRUCTED THE SPEECH LATER FOR PUBLICATION IN WHAT WAS TO BECOME THE MANIFESTO OF HIS 26TH OF JULY MOVEMENT |
| "SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD" | JONATHAN EDWARDS |
| "TRYST WITH DESTINY" SPEECH, ON THE EVE OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE | NEHRU |
| "ICH BIN EIN BERLINER" | JFK (1963) AFTER THE BERLIN WALL WAS ERECTED |
| "QUIT INDIA" SPEECH | GANDHI |
| "ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY" | FDR : IN ONE OF HIS FIRESIDE CHATS, HE REFERRED TO DETROIT AS THE "ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY" |
| "INFAMY SPEECH" | FDR: DEC.8,1941 |
| "TILBURY" SPEECH | ELIZABETH I TO THE LAND FORCES ASSEMBLED TO REPEL THE SPANISH ARMADA |
| "CROSS OF GOLD SPEECH" | WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (1896 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION) |
| "THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES" | PLATO: HIS VERSION OF THE SPEECH GIVEN BY SOCRATES AS HE DEFENDS HIMSELF |
| "BLOOD AND IRON" | BISMARCK |
| "CORNERSTONE SPEECH" | ALEXANDER STEPHENS: CONFEDERATE V.P.; LAID OUT THE CONFEDERATE CAUSES FOR THE CIVIL WAR |
| "WE WILL BURY YOU" | KHRUSHCHEV, 1956 |
| "PRO MILONE" AND "CATILII ORATIONS" | CICERO : GREATEST ORATOR OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE |
| "FOURTEEN POINTS" | WILSON: 1918 |
| "WIND OF CHANGE" | BRITISH P.M. HAROLD MACMILLAN TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT IN 1960, EXPESSING BRITISH INTENTION TO GRANT INDEPENDENCE TO ITS AFRICAN COLONIES |
| "DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY" | MACARTHUR'S VALEDICTORY SPEECH AT WEST POINT IN 1962 |
| "IRELAND UNFREE SHALL NEVER BE AT PEACE" | 1915: LEAD TO THE EASTER RISING OF 1916 |
| "NEVER WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW" | CHURCHILL: AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN REFERRING TO THE RAF ("THE FEW") |
| "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" | REAGAN TO GORBACHEV |
| "CITY UPON A HILL" | JOHN WINTHROP'S SERMON "A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY" |
| "GETTYSBURG ADDRESS" | LINCOLN |
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