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  • Patrick Henry "Give me liberty or give me death." Speech

    4 23.53%
  • Washington's Farewell Address

    2 11.76%
  • Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

    1 5.88%
  • Abrahams Lincolns Second Innaugural Address "With malice towards none, with charity for all."

    2 11.76%
  • FDR's First Innaugrual Address "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself!"

    1 5.88%
  • MacArthurs Farewell Address

    0 0%
  • Ike's Farewell Address

    2 11.76%
  • JFK's Innaugural Address

    1 5.88%
  • Martin Luther King Jr "I Have a Dream" Speech

    2 11.76%
  • Ronald Reagans Brandenburg Gate Speech

    2 11.76%
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    In Honor of today being the anniversary of MLK Jr's famous speech, which American do you think gave the greatest speech?
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    Reagan. I've got a collection of his on MP3.

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    I think JFK's speech was as uplifting, challenging, and hopeful a speech as I have heard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damn Yankee View Post
    Reagan. I've got a collection of his on MP3.
    I almost didn't put that on the list. I didn't even rate it in the top ten. Only someone utterly clueless of history would rate that #1. It was an important and significant speech but it barely cracked my top 20. Truman "The man who really won the cold war" "The Truman Doctrine Speech" before congress where he announced his plan for containment of the Soviets that won the cold war and announced the beginning of the Marshall plan was a substantially more important speech. So was LBJ's voter's rights act address but I figured if I didn't put Reagan's on their for you right wing mythology lovers I figured I'd never hear the end of it.

    To put him in the same context though as Wasshington, Ike, Lincoln, FDR and MLK is pretty laughable.

    I had the Brandenburg speech around 17 or 18.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterBorn View Post
    I think JFK's speech was as uplifting, challenging, and hopeful a speech as I have heard.
    I agree it was.
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    It was a tough choice for me between The Ghettysburg Address" and the "I have a dream" speech.

    The Ghettysburg address is pure rhetorical genius. The orator Edward Everett who preceeded Lincoln at Ghettysburg said it best when he said "You have come closer to the central issue of this war in 2 minutes then I did in two hours."

    But I voted for MLK's "I have a dream". The advantage I give MLK is "I actually got to hear that speech, and heard the power of his oratory and his eloquence."

    No speech in my life time has done more to advance freedom and liberty for my fellow Americans then that speech did. So I gave it #1.
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    Who gave the greatest American speech?

    Shrub's "Mission Accomplished" speech.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I almost didn't put that on the list. I didn't even rate it in the top ten. Only someone utterly clueless of history would rate that #1. It was an important and significant speech but it barely cracked my top 20. Truman "The man who really won the cold war" "The Truman Doctrine Speech" before congress where he announced his plan for containment of the Soviets that won the cold war and announced the beginning of the Marshall plan was a substantially more important speech. So was LBJ's voter's rights act address but I figured if I didn't put Reagan's on their for you right wing mythology lovers I figured I'd never hear the end of it.

    To put him in the same context though as Wasshington, Ike, Lincoln, FDR and MLK is pretty laughable.

    I had the Brandenburg speech around 17 or 18.
    "Appeal to ridicule" is all you have, even in matters of opinion.

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    All the speeches you have on the list are important except maybe the last one but the greatest speech is yet to come...

    "Glenn Beck hopes to make history. He is convinced his Restoring Honor rally, planned for August 28th, will cause shockwaves unfelt in the country since the mid 1750s, the time of the Great Awakening."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crashk View Post
    All the speeches you have on the list are important except maybe the last one but the greatest speech is yet to come...

    "Glenn Beck hopes to make history. He is convinced his Restoring Honor rally, planned for August 28th, will cause shockwaves unfelt in the country since the mid 1750s, the time of the Great Awakening."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damn Yankee View Post
    "Appeal to ridicule" is all you have, even in matters of opinion.
    ROTFLMAO! Do you really, honestly and truely believe Reagan gave the greatest speech in American History? LOL LOL LOL

    Dude, you got that right, it's eminently worthy of ridicule. Even Reagan would laugh at yoU! LOL LOL LOL

    I think everyone who selected a different speech can make an excellent argument as to why that was superior to Reagan's Brandenburg speech, probably starting with the fact that Reagan didn't even write it! LOL LOL LOL

    I'll love to hear you guys on the far right explain this, it ought to be a hoot!

    I really liked Ronnie a lot but this mythology you guys create about him is hysterical!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    ROTFLMAO! Do you really, honestly and truely believe Reagan gave the greatest speech in American History? LOL LOL LOL

    Dude, you got that right, it's eminently worthy of ridicule. Even Reagan would laugh at yoU! LOL LOL LOL
    whats your problem? you ask for peoples OPINION and then you ridicule them and mock their choice based solely on your opinion.

    you're an idiot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yurt View Post
    whats your problem? you ask for peoples OPINION and then you ridicule them and mock their choice based solely on your opinion.

    you're an idiot
    Isn't that what the bulk of the posts on this site consist of? Not actual debate, but ridicule and insults?

    Why should Mott be any different?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterBorn View Post
    Isn't that what the bulk of the posts on this site consist of? Not actual debate, but ridicule and insults?

    Why should Mott be any different?
    what is the point of asking people's opinion if you're only going to mock them. the difference is....mott solicited the opinions and then mocks them because he didn't like the choice, yet he made the poll....

    the entire thing is opinion, thus, there is no right or wrong, mott is being a dumbass

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    I should have made this a public poll. grrrrr
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