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Old 01-17-2007, 11:08 PM
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Default Great speeches

"Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" - Winston Churchill
("...You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war...")
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html

"We shall never surrender" - Winston Churchill
("...we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender...")
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/e...s/111chur.html

Chief Seattle's 1854 Oration
http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html
("...Grim fate seems to be on the Red Man's trail, and wherever he will hear the approaching footsteps of his fell destroyer and prepare stolidly to meet his doom...")

War Speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt
("...Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us...")
http://130.18.140.19/stennis/FDRwarmessage.html

General Douglas MacArthur's Farewell Speech
("...In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield...")
http://www.nationalcenter.org/MacArthurFarewell.html
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