SPEECH+REENACTMENTS

It is very obvious that some of these are reenacted, but hopefully they provide a reference for you! Carefully consider the following when listening (record your notes in your Overview Unit!):  1. In what context is this speech given?  2. What is the historical significance of this context?  3. To which of the 17 Steps in American History does this speech relate?  4. How is this speech a representation of American History Themes and Values?

Patrick Henry "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"

Daniel Webster [|"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"]

Abraham Lincoln[|"...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."] (you get 3 speeches in this video - the first and last are the Gettysburg Address and the 2nd Inaugural Address)

Abraham Lincoln [|"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with fairness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish this work we are in, to bind up with the nation's wounds."] (not a reenactment, but creative!)

William Jennings Bryan [|"...You shall not crucify mankind on this cross of gold."]

Teddy Roosevelt "Walk softly and carry a big stick." - sorry haven't been able to find this being spoken

Calvin Coolidge[|"The business of America is Business."]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt [|"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (first 2 - 3 minutes) Franklin Delano Roosevelt [|"Those leader...leaders have not been content with attacks upon me, or my wife, or my sons - now they include my little dog Fala."]

Franlkin Delano Roosevelt [|"...a day that will live in infamy..."]

Winston Churchill [|"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."]

Winston Churchill [|"An iron curtain has descended across the continent"]

Winston Churchill [|"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."]

Richard Nixon [|"It was a little cocker spaniel dog...and our little girl...named it Checkers...regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it."]

Douglas MacArthur [|"In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory."]

John F. Kennedy [|"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."]

Barry Goldwater [|"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."]

Martin Luther King Jr. [|"I have a dream."]

Ronald Reagan "I suggest to you there is no right or left, only an up or a down."

Ronald Reagan [|"Tear down this wall."]