Tag Archives: Speeches

“Saving, in the abstract, is, of course, a perfunctory process as compared with purposeful saving for a home…”

“[T]hat longing which exists in every human breast to be able to say: ‘This is mine.””

“To reaffirm and reestablish those old theories and principles which time and the unerring logic of events have demonstrated to be sound.”

〜A 1923 Independence Day discourse on the American Mind〜

〜Settle in for a long read on the enigmatic life and death of a Roman Emperor whose life was as interesting as his reign was short〜

“It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge…” -Douglas MacArthur

Calvin Coolidge tells an interesting story about the rescue of a shipwrecked Japanese boy and the beginning of U.S.-Japan relations.

On July 4, 1888, Benjamin Harrison accepted the Republican nomination for president from his home, and then received some special guests.

〜The relevance of the length of a speech to the possibility of reform〜