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[Talisker]

[Talisker]

Genius!

[Talisker]

Not a speech but an important message nonetheless.

[vaughanwilliams]

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

[frogeye]

mine is the Monty Python speech "what did the Romans ever do for us"

[SSBubbles]

..... is not this one!

Moving on, what are your most/least favourite speeches of all time?

How much 'coaching' did he have to deliver that 'controlled' garbage? Shame on him and the writers.

[Talisker]

Again not a speech, but inspirational nonetheless.

[Malapapa]

How much 'coaching' did he have to deliver that 'controlled' garbage? Shame on him and the writers.


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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill

SSBubbles, what a wonderful quote you have as your signature. I salute you. And remember, "difficulties mastered are opportunities won".

[Malapapa]

Well, well, well... is this your voice on the video clip?

If yes, regrettably, I must admit you sound older than me... and that accent... hmmm... never mind.

Nice to HEAR from you Malapapa.

Best regards,

Georgios100

It isn't my voice, Georgios. But the words can certainly apply to Cyprus in its struggle against tyranny.

[Epiktitos]

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.