Comments on: The 35 Greatest Speeches in History

By: shreekumar k p

shreekumar k p — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:33:51 +0000

An amazing compilation!!!!

By: Tim in Memphis

Tim in Memphis — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:28:26 +0000

Oops! Missed it. Stupid iPhone (user)!
Great list, & kudos for including the Frederick Douglass speech.

By: Tim in Memphis

Tim in Memphis — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:08:33 +0000

Glaring omission:

LIBERTY OR DEATH
Patrick Henry

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:27:35 +0000

@Brett – maybe your next posting is about how a real man doesn’t whine about the works of others unless he is willing to layout his own work for public scrutiny.

For crying out loud people – it is Brett’s opinion on a blog. Not something that is engraved in stone tablets. Most of these people would have criticized JFK when he wrote Profiles in Courage because he didn’t include somebody from “insert country / ethnic group / political viewpoint here”

I will humbly add a speech from my own father, “Easy to criticize the player for dropping the pass from the comfort of your easy chair”

By: Cj

Cj — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:29:18 +0000

Nice list. I will add, without a doubt Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (on scholarly lists of top American speeches). See text of speech below the video at: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html Especially of note what Razzbar mentioned of “Delivery, Content and Consequence”. The speech was delivered on short notice, and the consequence of it was said to have been a major contributing factor in that Indianapolis was one of the few/only major cities without a riot resulting from the assassination. Heartfelt and pure as any speech.