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Each of these lines was taken from a famous speech. Wherever possible, the line directly follows one of the most famous lines in the speech. Can you name either the speech each one was taken from or the person who made each speech?
"Famous" is a relative term. Some of these speeches may be slightly obscure.
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Speaker | Speech
...that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed...
Martin Luther King Jr. | "I Have a Dream"
If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
Joseph Goebbels | "Sportpalast Speech"
Den dey talks 'bout dis ting in de head; what dis dey call it?
Sojourner Truth | "Ain't I a Woman?"
But my name is a Canadian name also, and that’s the story of my name.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau | "Elliott"
We shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill | "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"
Every true Congressman or woman will join the struggle with an inflexible determination not to remain alive to see the country in bondage and slavery.
Mahatma Gandhi | "Quit India"
...think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Elizabeth I | "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury"
I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent—and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens.
Ronald Reagan | "Tear Down This Wall"
Different forms and styles in art should develop freely and different schools in science should contend freely.
Mao Zedong | "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People"
The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves...
Stanley Baldwin | "A Fear For the Future"
He has taken his garment from before the sun, and caused it to shine with brightness upon us.
Red Jacket | "Religion for the White Man and the Red"
...the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked...
Franklin D Roosevelt | "Day of Infamy"
Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you.
Joesph Welch | "Have You Left No Sense of Decency?"
I do not know what to tell you and how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the Father of the Nation, is no more.
Jawaharlal Nehru | "The Light Has Gone Out of Our Lives"
...the cult which became at a certain specific stage the source of a whole series of exceedingly serious and grave perversions...
Nikita Khrushchev | "Speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU"
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