Posted on 08/23/2020 3:32:16 PM PDT by cann
In your opinion what is the best conservative speech given? It can be from any time period.
For me, A Time for Choosing" by Ronald Reagan would be in the top 10 as well as Goldwater's 1964 Acceptance Speech.
Thanks, I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Only Rosie O’Donnell......best one line speech ever.
Was Washington’s Farewell Address a “conservative” speech?
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”.
Who am I and why am I here? Stockdale
Trump’s “Our movement is about replacing a failed...” sppech in October 2016. To me, this is THE greatest speech in American history.
Every one of them was ignored...
Every one of them has turned out to be true...
My favorite was Ronald Reagan's speech in support of Barry Goldwater... He nailed our future, as it is currently unfolding, precisely... We are already 20-years into his predicted 1000-years... Which implies that the good news is that things may get better in 980-years,,,
The Tear Down This Wall speech and the Boys of Pointe du Hoc.
I don’t know much about speeches, but as far as “lines” go — the first one that comes to mind is Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall.” And the second one is (I know this will possibly get me flamed) is when GWB in his inaugural said that Americans were “citizens, not serfs.”
See #8
Thanks
My runner up
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Reagan, Rendezvous with Destiny, 1964. If you haven’t read it, you will enjoy it.
1. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
after that, in no particular order:
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death”
George Washington’s Farewell Address
Booker T. Washington’s “Let down your buckets”
MLK’s “I have dream”
Douglas MacArthur’s “Duty, Honor, Country”
Nixon’s 1968 acceptance speech
John McCain’s 2008 acceptance speech
George S. Patton’s opening speech (*)
Howard Roark’s speech (**)
(*) put-together
(**) fictional
Reagan in 1964 in support of Goldwater. Far and away the best speech in my lifetime.
Reagan’s Evil Empire speech. He used words as bombs.
Agree with Gettysburg Address
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