What are some of the best, most literary speeches in all of history?

What are some of the best, most literary speeches in all of history?

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Mostly Obama's speeches.

>this damage control

lol @ that cherry picked angle

LOL @ thinking the only possible reason for taking and presenting that photo is to show attendance numbers

sermon on the mount

if if if if if okie doke, let me be clear *squints at teleprompter*
Pericles funeral oration and Brutus addressing the Romans from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

>cherry picked

Why do people keep comparing trump's turnout to Obama's? The latters had the biggest turnout in history, so it's not fair to expect that for every future president.

Gettysburg Address I guess

>92% democrat city didn't turn up for the man who tore them a new asshole
really makes your brain do the thing

>this damage control

lowest entry approval ratings in history

this

>still gives credence to polls

You still haven't learned yet, have you?

>lose by 3 million votes
>See polls are nonsense!

Lincoln in general really, he was very well read.

>liberals lost the election and now they have to resort to being butt-flustered on Veeky Forums

>thinks America is a true democracy, not a republic

Shiggy diggy!

>shit he's right, better move the goalposts

>still using the 3 million votes meme when Trump is in the Oval Office right now
>not realizing that the (((polls))) are doctored

>he's still breathing

Enjoy the next 8 years, user.

*4 years

>8

So the actual final figures that confirmed Hillary was significantly more successful in gathering votes than Trump is a meme
Meanwhile the polls are still rigged despite not diverging significantly from the final result

God, what a glorious day it was.

i really liked the next frame of this where he's having a giggle

dubya is cute, CUTE

Woah! So they must have been taken around the same time, right?

Woah, Obama gets bigger crowds in a city that voting fucking 90% for him, what a surprise.

"It’s all right, lads: the chickens say that it’s going to be all right, and we have prepared a grand surprise for them, and we’re going to give them such a beating as they’ll never forget so long as they live – I don’t mean the chickens, I mean the British."

- Claudius the God, by Robert Graves

calm your jimmies, gentlemen

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"The Anal Cannon is loaded when a funnel is placed into an asshole, and the 2nd whore pukes into it. After the ass is filled with puke, a cock then fucks it until the pressure is all built up. After the Asshole has been fucked hard enough, the cock is pulled out and the Anal cannon explodes! "

Henry V, October 25, 1415 at Agincourt.

It was supposedly pretty good. The dramatization of it is certainly excellent.

>Why do people keep comparing trump's turnout to Obama's?
You mean the Trump administration
>It looked like a million-and-a-half people ... it went all the way back to the Washington Monument," Mr Trump said
>Later, his press secretary Sean Spicer went even further, saying it was "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe".

> We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom -- symbolizing an end as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbearers prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

> The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbearers fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

> We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage -- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

> Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

> This much we pledge -- and more.

> To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do -- for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

> To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom -- and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

> To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required -- not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

> To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge -- to convert our good words into good deeds -- in a new alliance for progress -- to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

> To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support -- to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective -- to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak -- and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

> Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

> We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

> But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course -- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

> So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

states choose the president, not the people.

> Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

> Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms -- and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.

> Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

> Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah -- to "undo the heavy burdens . . . . . and let the oppressed go free."

Alternatively:

youtu.be/GU_rn1xzItk

>f3 hitler
>0 matches

wtf Veeky Forums

>these are the very same people who thought Emperor Trump stood no chance of becoming president

youtube.com/watch?v=_V_w-kDLbl8

Peracles' Funeral Oration

seemon on the mount
pericles funeral oration
john galt
howard roark

Is this a real quote? If so, who the fuck is the British?