Reagan. I've got a collection of his on MP3.
Patrick Henry "Give me liberty or give me death." Speech
Washington's Farewell Address
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Abrahams Lincolns Second Innaugural Address "With malice towards none, with charity for all."
FDR's First Innaugrual Address "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself!"
MacArthurs Farewell Address
Ike's Farewell Address
JFK's Innaugural Address
Martin Luther King Jr "I Have a Dream" Speech
Ronald Reagans Brandenburg Gate Speech
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.
I think JFK's speech was as uplifting, challenging, and hopeful a speech as I have heard.
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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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.
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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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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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
I should have made this a public poll. grrrrr
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