Famous Speeches

1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation

2) Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this Earth

3) December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the USA was suddenly and deliberately attacked

4) The regulars are coming! The regulars are coming out!

5) I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

6) I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat

7) Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

8) “My loving people, We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes

9) Sic Semper Tyrannus!

10) “For any State to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people is to pass a bill of attainder"

11) What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim"

12) And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country"

13) One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

14) It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realized. But, My Lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

15) Give me liberty or give me death!

16) I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country

17) We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery"

18) “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it.”

19) Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory"

20) A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction"