Famous American Speeches - Last Lines

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1. "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us: That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we are highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." John Adams Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson George Custer

2. "It is on this line that we propose to fight our battle for the ballot-peaceably but nevertheless persistently-until we achieve complete triumph and all United States citizens, men and women alike, are recognized as equals in the government." Helen Herron Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Jacqueline Kennedy

3. "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" Robert Falcon Scott George Washington Patrick Henry William Henry Harrison

4. "I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire." Harry S Truman Franklin D Roosevelt Winston Churchill Josef Stalin

5. "Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival." Frederick Douglas Andrew Jackson Henry Lawton Jose Herrera

6. "With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own." Ronald Reagan Harry Truman John F Kennedy Abraham Lincoln

7. "Unmoved we will bear it aloft. Undauntedly we will unfurl it to the gale, for we know that the storm cannot rend from it a shred, that the electric flash will but more clearly show to us the glorious words inscribed upon it, 'Equality of Rights'." Martin Luther King Jr Lucy Stone John Roosevelt Robinson Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8. "We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth" to 'touch the face of god'." Jimmy Carter Bill Clinton George Bush Ronald Reagan

9. "Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. And may that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity." John F Kennedy Ulysses S Grant Thomas Jefferson Herbert Hoover

10. Above the pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States it says in Latin, 'God has favored our undertaking.' God will not favor everything we do. It is rather our duty to divine his will. But I cannot help but believe that he truly understands, and that he really favors the undertakings that we begin here tonight." Lyndon B Johnson Theodore Roosevelt George W Bush Richard Nixon