Greatest Speech in the English Language

[newtype]

Not a speach but some great quotes.



"I read the New York Times (substitute your local paper) and the Bible to keep track which each side is doing."
Cal Thomas

"The first job of conspiracy is to convince the world that conspiracy does not exist."
Dr. James Lucier

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up, we would be reorganized... I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress (change), while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
Pretonius Arbiter-Chief Lt. of Roman Emperor-Nero

"We Athenians believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs in not merely lazy, but good for nothing."
Thucydides

"Thank goodness government is not efficient."
Milt Friedman

[Heinkel]

It's not a "real" speech (from a movie, "Wall Street") but I'm pretty fond of it.

http://www.uttyler.edu/meidenmuller/mp3clips/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechwallstreet.mp3

[Furball]

"I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.

The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."



Or

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."


Or anything from here or this man http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=389