Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.

--US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing

Winner of the British Plain English Campaign's 2003 prize for the Most Nonsensical Remark made by a public figure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3254852.stm




Bonus feature:
After a planetwide reaction of "huh?? old man, what in the hell are you babbling about now?", Herr Rumsfeld then attempted to disengage his hoof from his piehole with this gem:


I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think... and I assume it's what I said

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"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

I've read quite a few of the speeches you've all provided. Some of hem I've read already. I personally like Winston Churchill's statement after America declared war on the Axis asfter the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It's apparent that there are not many American Presidential Speeches here so I decided to recommend one. It's already posted under American Politics and was written by none other than the Great Presidential American Speaker, Theodore Roosevelt. It's called, "The Strenuous Life" and can be argued to be Great and thorough enough to be called "The American's National Bible" Basically meaning it completely lays out what an American is and how an American should live. It's A Great speech given by my Favorite past president and a must read to any American. It's a little lengthy and there are some politics of the time discussed in it but in its entirety, nothing short of brilliant. There is much of it that is easily recognized to apply to politics today which I also love about it. Great Read, Great Speech, Great Man, Great American.

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."

William Shakspeare

"from all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most" it isn't a speech but it is a really nice quote

bomp for afromurican month.


yes. I know. I'm late again this year.

Roosevelt and Churchill both were traitors and hypocrites, Churchill destroyed destroyed Britain and Roosevelt set the stage for the downfall of the US. The future, once history has been rewritten to reflect the reality of what happened, will remember both as some of the greatest traitors in human history!

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In times of universal deceit the love of truth becomes the most radical of all ideologies.

Still a Caveman? - Your Mind is Controlled - The Brainwashing of the West - Your thoughts are not your own

Veritax Vox Liberabit

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this are speech b y Jean Charest, he giv e in House of Commons November 2006 t o recognise of Québec as nation wit h Canada.

"Mais, en anglais, il disait ceci, and I'd like to take a second, Mr. Speaker, to speak to not only Quebeckers, but to all Canadians, to remind them that what the House of Commons did, last Monday, is what Sir John A. Macdonald invited them to do 150 years ago. The long hand of history reached back, as Sir John A. Macdonald said, 150 years ago, about French Canadians now Quebeckers, he said this: «Treat them as a nation and they will act as a free people generally do, generously. Treat them as a faction and they become factious.»

If Sir John A. Macdonald was able, 150 years ago, before the creation of this country called Canada, to recognize that this country would only be possible at the condition that we recognize, that we respect and acknowledge each other, well, the House of Commons and its leaders were right, 150 years after, to say to Sir John A. Macdonald: We celebrate the spirit of your invitation and, as we do, we celebrate Canada itself.

M. le Président, le Canada n'aurait pas existé comme pays si on avait nié puis si on avait absorbé l'identité québécoise, si on lui avait refusé son autonomie."
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Hockey is more than just a game, It's an event - Peter Forsberg
I am living my dream right now. I get to make music -Ville Valo
Human rights are praised more than ever and violated as much as ever -Anna Lindh
I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war -Avril Lavigne

If you haven't seen this speech then you will never understand the greatness that was Ronald Reagan. He freed millions from slavery and this video shows that was his lifes work. The long version will demonstrate what dangers we face in our own country from the creeping socialism and the dangers of an increasingly powerful federal government.

"Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face -- that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand -- the ultimatum. And what then -- when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin..."


Click here for entire speech and long version of entire speech:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...orchoosing.htm

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We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. -- Ann Coulter

AND NOW, FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?

Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity.

She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights.

She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.

She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.

She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right.

Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.

But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.

She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.

The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....

She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....

[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried" Churchill

Utter Rot!!! - History will see them in the context of standing up to possibly the most evil man through the ages, Hitler and his ganster henchmen.


Hitler and his cowardly mobsters were utterly destroyed and Churchill words will be remembered throughout the World as accurate and inspiring for all time.

Thank God the US and the UK stood together and played their part in smashing Germany

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Russian Imperialism is a greater danger to the World today than AlQueda terrorism