General Douglas MacArthur: Thayer Award Acceptance Address delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY "Duty, Honor, Country" General Westmoreland, General Grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the
Barbara Jordan: 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address "Who, then, will speak for the common good?" Thank you ladies and gentlemen for a very warm reception. It was one hundred and forty-
*Madam President and* Members of the General Assembly: When Secretary General Hammarskjold’s invitation to address this General Assembly reached me in Bermuda, I was just beginning a series of confere
Malcolm X: "The Ballot or the Bullet" (Photo not taken on this occasion) Mr. Moderator, Reverend Cleage, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, and friends and I see some enemies. In fact, I think we’d
Mario Cuomo: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address "A Tale of Two Cities" Thank you very much. On behalf of the great Empire State and the whole family of New York, let me thank you for
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the mate
Ronald Reagan: "A Time for Choosing" (aka "The Speech") Program Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, we take pride in presenting a thoughtful address by Ronald Reagan. Mr. Reagan: Reagan: Thank you. Thank
Jesse Jackson: 1984 Democratic National Convention Address "The Rainbow Coalition" Thank you very much. Tonight we come together bound by our faith in a mighty God, with genuine respect and love for o
Richard M. Nixon: "Checkers" "...the kids, like all kids, love the dog, and...regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it." My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate
Robert F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. "Ladies and Gentlemen...Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee" Ladies and Gentlemen: I'm o
President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of attending night law school, whi
Richard M. Nixon: "The Great Silent Majority" "So tonight, to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support. I pledged in my campaign for the Presidency to end the war
Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment "If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th century
Transcript of the Prime Minister's broadcast on Foot and Mouth Disease I want to speak today about the devastating outbreak of foot and mouth disease, to say what we are doing to control and eradicate
President Bush Commemorates Military Spouse Day THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Phil. I appreciate -- appreciate you and your band members being here today. Thanks for entertaining us here on the
Edward M. Kennedy Address at the Public Memorial Service for Robert F. Kennedy delivered 8 June 1968 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York Your Eminences, Your Excellencies, Mr. President: On behalf of
President Bush Discusses North Korea THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. The policy of the United States is a Korean Peninsula free of all nuclear weapons. This morning, we moved a step closer to that goal,
President's Radio Address This week, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives held a conference to highlight the work being done by our Nation's armies of compassion, with help
NEWS 新闻 I spread the good news. 我传播正面新闻。 I envision positive news reports. 我期待正面的新闻报道。 We read so much in the news about disasters; there is so much bad news flooding our consciousness. 如今的新闻中充斥着大量灾难性
