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American Rhetoric

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"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." - Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863
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"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." - William Faulkner

Captain John Miller: Address to unit on saving Private Ryan

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This information has been posted for non-commercial, educational, and research purposes.
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"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." - Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863
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"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." - William Faulkner

Nice site! I like some of the speeches. One of my favorites is this one:

Archers!

Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops.

Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.

Hold The Line!

Stay With Me!

If you find yourself alone,

riding the green fields with the sun on your face,

do not be troubled--

For you are in Elysium,

and you're already dead!

Brothers, what we do in Life, echoes in Eternity.....

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Excerpt from Mr. Smith goes to Washington

Senator Jefferson Smith , played by Jimmy Stewart

(one of my favorite movies)

Senator Jefferson Smith Collapses and Filibuster Ends


"I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for. And he fought for them once for the only reason any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain, simple rule: Love thy neighbor. And in this world today full of hatred a man who knows that one rule has a great trust. You know that rule, Mr. Paine. And I loved you for it just as my father did. And you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others. Yes, you even die for them -- like a man we both knew, Mr. Paine.


You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked! Well I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause even if this room gets filled with lies like these; and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me. So --

(Smith Collapses)

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"To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962)

Atticus Finch delivers his Closing Argument at the Trial of Tom Robinson



Finch: To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The State has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. Now there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten, savagely by someone who led, almost exclusively, with his left [hand]. And Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken "The Oath" with the only good hand he possesses -- his right.

I have nothing but pity in my heart for the Chief Witness for the State. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance. But, my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake, which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt. Now I say "guilt," gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She's committed no crime. She's merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. But, what was the evidence of her offense? Tom Robinson, a human being. She must put Tom Robinson away from her. Tom Robison was to her a daily reminder of what she did. Now what did she do? She tempted a negro. She was white and she tempted a negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: She kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong, young negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.

The witnesses for the State, with the exception of the sheriff of Lincoln county, have presented themselves to you gentlemen -- to this Court -- in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted; confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption, the evil assumption, that all negroes lie; all negroes are basically immoral beings; all negro men are not to be trusted around our women -- an assumption that one associates with minds of their caliber, and which is in itself, gentlemen, a lie -- which I do not need to point out to you.

And so, a quiet, humble, respectable negro, who has had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman, has had to put his word against two white peoples. The defendant is not guilty. But somebody in this courtroom is.

Now, gentlemen, in this country our courts are the great levelers. In our courts, all men are created equal. I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system. That's no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality! Now I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence that you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this man to his family. In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Amongst the 'Top Guns' and 'Bravehearts' of this world, I'd for sure nominate Celia Johnson's speech from 'In Which We Serve'.

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

My favourite speech is Leslie Howard's closing speech to the Nazi at the railway station, in the film 'Pimpernell Smith'.

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if in doubt....Panic!!!!

we're gonna need a bigger boat....Jaws

oh ok a war one then...

What the hell is this?" "Its a Peace symbol sir." "What does your helmet say?" "Born to kill sir." "What the hell is going on?" "I guess I was just trying to point out the duality of mankind."

- Full Metal Jacket

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Prepare to repel borders.
William L. McGonagle, MOH, U. S. Navy, Commanding Officer, USS LIBERTY 1967.

Oh yea! Look at the files they will be uploading, the two which i have submitted (both Stephen Lang from Gods and Generals) have been made!!!


CvM

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How could we forget Mel Gibson as Lt-Col Hal Moore in 'We Were Soldiers'-the whole-"I will leave no man behind" speech...tearjerker... [img]graemlins/vc.gif[/img]

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"GARRY OWEN"-Traditional war-cry of the US 7th Cavalry.
"CURRAHEE"-War-cry of the US 506th PIR.
"Everybody thinks that they are going to get the chance to punch some Nazi in the face at Normandy-and those days are over, they are long gone"-Lt Chris Burnett

"We Were Soldiers:" Lieutenant Colonel Harold "Hal" G. Moore; Address to the 7th Cavalry

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This information has been posted for non-commercial, educational, and research purposes.
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"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." - Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863
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"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." - William Faulkner

I thought that the speech by Charlie Chaplin in 'The Great Dictator' was good. I can't quote him but it was a very good speech.

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Yours faithfully, Munken

"Veni, Vidi, Vici"= I came I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
"We shall never surrender"- Winston Churchill.
"United we are strong, united we will win"

I call dibs on posting any Gods and Generals Speeches


after all, i submitted them all

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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/nopu...generals1.html

Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson Addresses Volunteers from the Shenandoah



Jackson: Men of the valley, citizen-soldiers: I am here at the order of General Robert E. Lee, Commander in all Virginia forces. On April 15th of this year of our Lord, 1861, Simon Cameron, the Secretary of War of the United States sent a telegram to our Governor, John Letcher, directing him to raise three regiments of infantry to be sent to assist in suppressin' the southern confederacy. Governor Letcher's answer is well-known to you, but perhaps not his words.

His wire to Washington stated, "You have chosen to inaugurate civil war. And, having done so, we will meet you in a spirit as determined as the Lincoln Administration has exhibited toward the South."

Two days later, the Virginia Legislature voted for secession.

Just as WE would not send any of our soldiers to march in other states and tyrannize other people, so will we never allow the armies of others to march into our State and tyrannize our people.

Like many of you -- indeed, most of you -- I've always been a Union man. It is not with joy or with a light heart that many of us have welcomed secession. Had our neighbors to the North practiced a less bellicose form of persuasion, perhaps this day might not have come. BUT that day has been thrust upon us like it was THRUST upon our ancestors.

The Lincoln Administration required us to raise three regiments.

TELL them we have done so!

Dismissed.

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I also liked George C. Scotts farwell speech in TAPS was pretty good as well.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.