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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MC_Honky on February 06, 2004, 07:39:27 AM
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Duty-Honor- Country- what a beautiful speech. Here is a .mp3 link to it. Full length- unedited. The last 1/4 is very very powerful:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~burbank406/dmacarthurthayeraward[1].mp3
copy and paste the string including .mp3 for it to work.
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Link broken.
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add the [1].mp3
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Mac was good and that particular one is great. But I think Churchill may be a tad better.
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Agreed Toad.. this is a good speech, but Churchill delivered great speeches... with great skill... timing.
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Mac? MacArthur? is this the speech at west point? That was one of the best I've ever heard. I might be a little biased though since the Inchon landing is the reason why I exist.
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Dr Martin Luther Kings I have a dream speech.
Filled with Love and hope for all men.
A dam shame he was killed before we all could learn more from him.
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A little story of Churchill:
On some VIP-Posh occation Churchill happened to be somewhat slightly intoxicated. Some elderly lady of definate aristocracy notices that and remarks with an angry look on her face: "You,gentleman, are drunk".
Churchill replies "And you, dear lady, are ugly. But tomorrow, I will be sober"
:D
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I'll stick with the Gettysburg Address.
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The Presidents speech in Independance Day.
Everytime I hear it I get all teary-eyed patriotic and want to kill a space alien.
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That MacArthur speech gives me chills..when he's remembering WWI and WWII...haunting !!
Here's a Better link..look on the right for the .mp3 download:
http://www.congressionalgoldmedal.com/DouglasMacArthurDutyHonorCountry.htm
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ROTFL Pooh
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Cross of Gold.
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I would vote for:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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JFK's Adress at the American University (10/6/63) is a far superior speech...
So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
Or even the ST Crispin day speech:
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
I guess it doesn't help I think MacArthur's a pompous ass
Tronsky
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Not a speach but some great quotes.
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"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
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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
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"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."
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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