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#41
11-03-2005, 01:29 PM
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Re: Best speeches of all-time
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thread over. You really want to get shivers, watch Kenneth Branagh deliver it in his movie version.... [/ QUOTE ] Really! I've never seen that version. Have you seen the Olivier version? Is Branagh better? You say so, I'm buying it tomorrow! PS. For anyone not up on history - the context is the battle of Agincourt, where the English went up against a French force at least 10 times bigger. And won. We are badasses! 
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#42
11-03-2005, 01:32 PM
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Re: Best speeches of all-time
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[ QUOTE ] thread over. You really want to get shivers, watch Kenneth Branagh deliver it in his movie version.... [/ QUOTE ] Really! I've never seen that version. Have you seen the Olivier version? Is Branagh better? You say so, I'm buying it tomorrow! [/ QUOTE ] Branagh's version is pretty much considered the only reason people know who he is in the States, it made his name here. I think it was nominated for awards, and everyone I talk to thinks it's fantastic. Personally, I was flipping through channels and caught him doing the speech and thought at nervous high-schooler could have done better. But as far as I know, there's not a single person that agrees with me. I am not fond of Branagh in anything, really, so take it FWIW.
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#45
11-03-2005, 02:10 PM
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Re: Best speeches of all-time
Check out americanrhetoric.com - - it has a library with over 5,000 videos, audios, and texts of speeches. It is very addictive. I'm not a Nixon fan, but you should listen to the "Checkers" speech - it is fascinating.
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#46
11-03-2005, 02:18 PM
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Re: Best speeches of all-time
MacArthur's Farewell Speech at West Point:
Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be duty, honor, country. Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds. But serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the nation's war guardians, as its lifeguards from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiators in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded, and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice. Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of out processes of government: Whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by Federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and complete as they should be. These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a tenfold beacon in the night: Duty, Honor, Country. You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system or defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds..... The long, grey line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and grey, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country. This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
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#47
11-03-2005, 02:27 PM
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Re: Best speeches of all-time
Ted Kennedy withdraws his nomination from 1980 primaries at the DNC convention.
i burned it onto several mp3 cd's that i have in my car, so i listen to it every few weeks or so.
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#48
11-03-2005, 02:30 PM
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Re: Best speeches of all-time
Dr. Lizardo: We must act! ESCAPE, or die! We must-a work faster, to finish the Great Vehicle Itself, so we can enter the 8th dimension, and FREE our trapped comrades, so we can return home, and seize power once again! What is the greatest joy? Red Lectroids: The joy of duty. Dr. Lizardo: Louder! Red Lectroids: The joy of duty! Dr. Lizardo: History... is-a made at night! Character... is what you are in the dark! We must-a work, while the clock, she's-a ticking! Red Lectroid: Lord Whorfin is strong! Red Lectroid: Death to the Black Lectroids! Dr. Lizardo: Where are we going? Red Lectroids: Planet Ten! Dr. Lizardo: When? Red Lectroids: Real Soon!
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#50
11-03-2005, 02:34 PM
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Re: Best speeches of all-time
 Captain Koons: Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad's. We were in that Hanoi pit of hell together over five years. Hopefully...you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Dad were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, Major Coolidge would be talkin' right now to my son Jim. But the way it turned out is I'm talkin' to you, Butch. I got somethin' for you. This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's war watch and he wore it everyday he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Marine and he was killed -- along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold watch. This watch. (holds it up, long pause) This watch was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
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