Speech of June 18 谁说败局已定 The leaders who, for many years, were at the head of French armies, have formed a government. This government, alleging our armies to be undone, agreed with the enemy to stop fighting. Of course, we were subdued b...
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS热血、辛劳、汗水和眼泪 In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or for mer colleagues who are affected by the politic...
ON HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY George Bernard Shaw July 26, 1926 Of late years the public have been trying to tackle me in every way they possibly can, and failing to make anything of it they have turned to treating me Bs a great man. This is a dreadful...
The Strenuous Life Gentlemen, 1. In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I...
Engels's speech on Karl Marx's funeral On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, pea...
Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whet...
A Divided House cannot stand Abraham Lincoln Mr president and genltemen of the convention, If we could first know where we are,and whither we are tending,we could beter judge what to do,and how to do it.we are now far into the fifith year since a pol...
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject...
Hi, everybody. Four years after the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, our economy is growing again and creating jobs. But we have much more to do. Our task now is to build on that progress. Because this nation only succeeds when we've got a gro...
On behalf of the Obama familyMichelle, Malia, Sasha and BoI want to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. For us, like so many of you, this is a day full of family and friends; food and football. It's a day to fight the overwhelming urge to take a...