Great American Speeches

Who gave the greatest American speech?

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

    Votes: 4 25.0%

  • Washington's Farewell Address

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

    Votes: 1 6.3%

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

    Votes: 2 12.5%

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

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • MacArthurs Farewell Address

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ike's Farewell Address

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • JFK's Innaugural Address

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Martin Luther King Jr "I Have a Dream" Speech

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Ronald Reagans Brandenburg Gate Speech

    Votes: 2 12.5%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople

Sweet Jane
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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I think JFK's speech was as uplifting, challenging, and hopeful a speech as I have heard.
 
Damn Yankee said:
Reagan. I've got a collection of his on MP3.
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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.
 
Who gave the greatest American speech?
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Shrub's "Mission Accomplished" speech.

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Mott the Hoople said:
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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"Appeal to ridicule" is all you have, even in matters of opinion.
 
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."
http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/?p=8548

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Damn Yankee said:
"Appeal to ridicule" is all you have, even in matters of opinion.
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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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Mott the Hoople said:
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
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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
 
Yurt said:
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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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?
 
WinterBorn said:
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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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
 
Yurt said:
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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Well you actually have a point. Part of me put it in there because I know how popular Reagan is with the far right. Another part of me put it in there to see if there would really be anyone actually that stupid to vote for him! LOL

Greater then Washington? Lincoln? FDR? MLK? Come on....you're joking right?
 
Yurt said:
wrong again poople...i didn't vote in your stupid thread because you fucked it up
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OH quit spazzing out. I didn't post this to have a Ronny Raygun love fest. I wanted people to write on why they thought those speeches are important and what it meant to them. The fact that I'm laughing at SM and ridiculing his choice shold only prompt him to do just that and if he doesn't, well it's probably because he can't. :P
 
Mott the Hoople said:
OH quit spazzing out. I didn't post this to have a Ronny Raygun love fest. I wanted people to write on why they thought those speeches are important and what it meant to them. The fact that I'm laughing at SM and ridiculing his choice shold only prompt him to do just that and if he doesn't, well it's probably because he can't. :P
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now ^ that ^ is spazzing out

poor mott can't handle people choosing reagan so you have a meltdown :)

next time, don't make an option as it clearly distresses you
 
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