Tag Archives: Speeches

Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison’s 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.

“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〜

A very long read examining how Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and Martial wrote about the peculiar life and death of Otho, who ruled as Roman Emperor for three months in 69 AD.

“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 autocratic President of Uzbekistan gave a very long speech about reforming the security services. I assessed how the length of the speech related to the possibility of reform.