Je favoriete speeches.

[Munglik]

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/R...t-version.aspx

[Vlad]

Die heb ik nog geschreven.

[eno2]

Die van Winston, bloed zweet en tranen (speech op het scherp van het mes)

[Xenophon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYi-RER8VJg

[Munglik]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door eno2

Die van Winston, bloed zweet en tranen (speech op het scherp van het mes)

Ik ben niet echt een fan van Churchill.

[manta]

Die van Dolfke zijn wel goed, daar zit pit in...

[Vlad]

Deze, dezeen deze heb ik desgelijks geschreven. Heden ten dag wordt de tekst gerecycleerd.

[Munglik]

This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.

At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society.

The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and forest; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm one's membership and allegiance to the body politic - to society - to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our children's future.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people. Therefore, the essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer - not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
And even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.
These are the sacred rights of Western society. These were the essential differences between us and Nazi Germany, as they were between Athens and Persia.

Waren er maar zo'n politiekers in Belgie.

[Munglik]

In a few hours, the plane that brought me to this country crossed over oceans and countries which have been a crucible of human history. In minutes we traced the migration of men over thousands of years; seconds, the briefest glimpse, and we passed battlefields on which millions of men once struggled and died.
We could see no national boundaries, no vast gulfs or high walls dividing people from people; only nature and the works of man - homes and factories and farms - everywhere reflecting Man's common effort to enrich his life. Everywhere new technology and communications bring men and nations closer together, the concerns of one inevitably becoming the concerns of all. And our new closeness is stripping away the false masks, the illusion of difference which is at the root of injustice and hate and war.

Only earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ended at river shore, his common humanity enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his town and views and the color of his skin.

It is your job, the task of the young people of this world, to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man.

Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future. There is discrimination in New York, the racial inequality of apartheid in South Africa, and serfdom in the mountains of Peru. People starve in the streets of India, a former Prime Minister is summarily executed in the Congo, intellectuals go to jail in Russia, and thousands are slaughtered in Indonesia; wealth is lavished on armaments everywhere in the world. These are differing evils; but they are the common works of man. They reflect the imperfections of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, the defectiveness of our sensibility toward the sufferings of our fellows; they mark the limit of our ability to use knowledge for the well-being of our fellow human beings throughout the world. And therefore they call upon common qualities of conscience and indignation, a shared determination to wipe away the unnecessary sufferings of our fellow human beings at home and around the world.

It is these qualities which make of youth today the only true international community. More than this I think that we could agree on what kind of a world we would all want to build. it would be a world of independent nations, moving toward international community, each of which protected and respected the basic human freedoms. It would be a world which demanded of each government that it accept its responsibility to insure social justice. It would be a world of constantly accelerating economic progress - not material welfare as an end in itself, but as a means to liberate the capacity of every human being to pursue his talents and to pursue his hopes. It would, in short, be a world that we would be proud to have built.

[Travis66]

Randy Pausch's final lecture. Duurt even, maar is de fucking moeite.Pak de cleenex erbij.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Titel: really achieving your childhood dreams.

[kiko]

Strikt gezien is dit ook een speech, zij het een korte.

http://forum.politics.be/showthread.php?t=180073


Forth
and fear no darkness !
Arise ! Arise, Riders of Theoden !
Spears shall be shaken
Shields shall be splintered !

A sword day...
A red day... ere the sun rises !

Ride now
Ride for ruin
And the world's ending !

Death !
Death !
Death !

[Johan217]

As for the rest of you around this table not directly related to me - you can sod off.

[van Maerlant]

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men -
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.


Altijd mooi gevonden.

[Johan217]

Cicero had er ook een paar goeie, spijtig dat mijn Latijn ondertussen al ver weg zit.

Quod quidem facerem vehementius, nisi intercederent mihi inimicitiae cum istius mulieris viro—fratre volui dicere; semper hic erro.

[lombas]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Munglik

Ik ben niet echt een fan van Churchill.

Ik dacht dat er om goede speeches was gevraagd, niet om je favoriete persoonlijkheden?

[-Jo-]

De beroemdste Duitse speech aller tijden. Geen enkele speech ter wereld die ooit zo veel geestdrift en spontane reactie losweekte als deze.

(vanaf 2:30)

[Voltian]

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...tyaddress.html


"...We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal..."

[Munglik]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door lombas

Ik dacht dat er om goede speeches was gevraagd, niet om je favoriete persoonlijkheden?

Euh, ja?

Ik zie het probleem niet.

[lombas]

Toch nog enkele mooie speeches:

- de rede van Socrates tijdens diens proces
- de Philippica (en vooral de Eerste) van Demosthenes, spitsvondigheid van de bovenste plank
- Alle redevoeringen van Cicero
- Jezus' Bergrede
- Luther in Worms