[Vision2020] Famous Speeches

[Warren Hayman]

I agree. For example, I think the Aeschylus quote could probably be dropped. 
I'm, uh, fairly certain the referent was not of the Judeo-Christian variety.

Warren Hayman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Campbell" <joekc at adelphia.net>
To: "Jeff Harkins" <jeffh at moscow.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:37 AM
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> Among the numerous quotes listed below is this one:
>
> Franklin Roosevelt, Declaration of War to Japan, Dec. 8, 1941
> I ask that the Congress declare that since the
> unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on
> Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has
> existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
>
> What does this have to do with divine intervention? In fact, what do most 
> of
> the quotes below have to do with divine intervention? I haven't read them 
> all
> but none of the ones that I read are like the Palin quote. Many of them
> merely mention the word "God." Maybe you could sift through the lot and 
> find
> one or two that will support your point.
>
> --
> Joe Campbell
>
> ---- Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> =============
> Those who have criticized Gov. Sarah Palin for
> her remarks on divine intervention might do well
> to review this sampling of quotations from some
> of the world's greatest leaders.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> All quotations, except for the quotes from the
> Declaration of Independence, are taken from the
> website: http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/
>
> Winston Churchill, The Retreat from Flanders Speech, June 4th, 1940
> We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the
> end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and
> oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence
> and growing strength in the air. We shall defend
> our island whatever the cost may be; we shall
> fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in
> streets and on the hills. We shall never
> surrender and even if, which I do not for the
> moment believe, this island or a large part of it
> were subjugated and starving, then our empire
> beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British
> Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's
> good time the New World with all its power and
> might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.
> Franklin Roosevelt, Declaration of War to Japan, Dec. 8, 1941
> I ask that the Congress declare that since the
> unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on
> Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has
> existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
> General George S. Patton, The Final Pep-Talk , May 17th, 1944
> There's one great thing you men can say when it's
> all over and you're home once more. You can thank
> God that twenty years from now, when you're
> sitting around the fireside with your grandson on
> your knee and he asks you what you did in the
> war, you won't have to shift him to the other
> knee, cough, and say, "I shovelled shit in Louisiana."
> General Dwight D. Eisenhower, The D-Day Order Speech, June 6th, 1944
> The tide has turned.
> The free men of the world are marching together
> to victory. I have full confidence in your
> courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle.
> We will accept nothing less than full victory.
> Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessings
> of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
> Martin Luther King, Jr., The Birth of a New Nation, April 7th, 1957
>
> Moses might not get to see Canaan, but his
> children will see it. He even got to the
> mountaintop enough to see it and that assured him
> that it was coming. But the beauty of the thing
> is that there’s always a Joshua to take up his
> work and take the children on in. And it’s there
> waiting with its milk and honey, and with all of
> the bountiful beauty that God has in store for
> His children. Oh, what exceedingly marvellous
> things God has in store for us. Grant that we
> will follow Him enough to gain them.
> O God, our gracious Heavenly Father, help us to
> see the insights that come from this new nation.
> Help us to follow Thee and all of Thy creative
> works in this world, and that somehow we will
> discover that we are made to live together as
> brothers And that it will come in this
> generation: the day when all men will recognize
> the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Amen.
> Pres. John F. Kennedy, Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Jan. 1, 
> 1961
> Finally, whether you are citizens of America or
> citizens of the world, ask of us the same high
> standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask
> of you. With a good conscience our only sure
> reward, with history the final judge of our
> deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
> asking His blessing and His help, but knowing
> that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
> Pres. John F. Kennedy, We Choose to go to the Moon, Sept. 12, 1962
> Well, space is there, and we're going to climb
> it, and the moon and the planets are there, and
> new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And,
> therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing
> on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest
> adventure on which man has ever embarked.
> President John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 22, 1962
> Our goal is not the victory of might, but the
> vindication of right-not peace at the expense of
> freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this
> hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God
> willing, that goal will be achieved.
>
> Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, Aug. 28th, 1963
> When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring
> from every village and every hamlet, from every
> state and every city, we will be able to speed up
> that day when all of God's children, black men
> and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
> Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in
> the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at
> last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
> Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10th, 1964
> You honour the ground crew without whose labour
> and sacrifices the jet flights to freedom could
> never have left the earth. Most of these people
> will never make the headlines and their names
> will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have
> rolled past and when the blazing light of truth
> is focused on this marvellous age in which we
> live, men and women will know and children will
> be taught that we have a finer land, a better
> people, a more noble civilization, because these
> humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.
> Pres. Lyndon B Johnson, We Shall Overcome, March 15th, 1965
> Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United
> States it says-in Latin - "God has favoured our
> undertaking." God will not favour everything that
> we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.
> But I cannot help bee believing that He truly
> understands and that He really favours the
> undertaking that we begin here tonight.
> Martin Luther King, Jr. Time to Break Silence, August 28th, 1963
> Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves
> to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle
> for a new world. This is the calling of the sons
> of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response.
> Martin Luther King, Jr. , I See the Promised Land,  April 3rd, 1968
> Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've
> got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't
> matter with me now. Because I've been to the
> mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I
> would like to live a long life. Longevity has its
> place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I
> just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me
> to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over.
> And I've seen the promised land. I may not get
> there with you. But I want you to know tonight,
> that we, as a people will get to the promised
> land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried
> about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine
> eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
>
> Robert F. Kennedy, Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4th, 1968
> My favourite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In
> our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by
> drop upon the heart until, in our own despair,
> against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
> Pres. Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address,  Jan. 20th, 1981
>
> It does require, however, our best effort and our
> willingness to believe in ourselves and to
> believe in our capacity to perform great deeds,
> and to believe that together with God's help, we
> can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.
> And after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.
> God bless you and thank you.
> Pres. Ronald Reagan, Address to the British Parliament, June 8th, 1982
> The British people know that, given strong
> leadership, time and a little bit of hope, the
> forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over
> evil. Here among you is the cradle of
> self-government, the Mother of Parliaments. Here
> is the enduring greatness of the British
> contribution to mankind, the great civilized
> ideas: individual liberty, representative
> government, and the rule of law under God.
> Pres. Bill Clinton, I Have Sinned, Sept. 11, 1998
>
> But I believe that to be forgiven, more than
> sorrow is required - at least two more things.
> First, genuine repentance - a determination to
> change and to repair breaches of my own making. I
> have repented. Second, what my bible calls a
> ''broken spirit''; an understanding that I must
> have God's help to be the person that I want to
> be; a willingness to give the very forgiveness I
> seek; a renunciation of the pride and the anger
> which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and
> compare and to blame and complain.
> Pres. Bill Clinton, I Have Sinned, Sept. 11, 1998
> I thank my friend for that. I thank you for being
> here. I ask you to share my prayer that God will
> search me and know my heart, try me and know my
> anxious thoughts, see if there is any hurtfulness
> in me, and lead me toward the life everlasting. I
> ask that God give me a clean heart, let me walk by faith and not sight.
> I ask once again to be able to love my neighbour
> - all my neighbours - as my self, to be an
> instrument of God's peace; to let the words of my
> mouth and the meditations of my heart and, in the
> end, the work of my hands, be pleasing. This is
> what I wanted to say to you today.
> Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776
>
> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
> men are created equal, that they are endowed by
> their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
> that among these are Life, Liberty and the
> pursuit of Happiness. ­ That to secure these
> rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
> deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
> and
> And for the support of this Declaration, with a
> firm reliance on the protection of Divine
> Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
> Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
>
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