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Famous Speeches

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Almost every famous speech is known through a single sentence, which is usually the least interesting part of it. Draw one and read the whole thing: the argument around the famous line is where the craft is, and several of these are structurally brilliant in ways the quote hides. Twenty-five speeches across politics, rights movements and wartime. Classrooms studying rhetoric get a term of material out of this draw, one speech a week.

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1Gettysburg Address
2I Have a Dream
3We Shall Fight on the Beaches
4Their Finest Hour
5The Iron Curtain
6Ask Not What Your Country Can Do
7Tear Down This Wall
8I Am Prepared to Die
9Mandela on his release, 1990
10Ain't I a Woman
11The Ballot or the Bullet
12Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
13Four Freedoms
14A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
15The Man in the Arena
16Quit India
17The Great Dictator closing speech
18Nobel Prize acceptance by Faulkner
19This Is Water
20Steve Jobs at Stanford, 2005
21The Perils of Indifference
22Address to the UN by Malala
23The Danger of a Single Story
24Funeral Oration of Pericles
25Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
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