Famous Speeches
Who said that?
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Elected officials make speeches both before and after they are elected. In American history, there are many famous speeches and quotes from politicians. Click on each image below to read a quote by that person from a famous speech or moment in history.
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William Penn
"Governments, like clocks, go from the motion people give them." Abraham Lincoln
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR Presidential Library & Museum [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." Lyndon B. Johnson
"A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right." John F. Kennedy
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Ronald Reagan
"We the people tell the government what to do; it doesn't tell us." |
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