"A great speech does not just capture the truth of it's era; it can also capture the big lie..., it is the speeches by the monsters of history that are the real lessons; speeches riddled with cynical, brutal lies and camp, ludicrous posturing, deluded, well-intentioned, reek of evil and folly.
"For me the best speech is one that marks no great event but merely pinpoints with splendid language, moral rigour and righteous fury, the essence of all decent civilization"
- Simon Sebag Montefiore.
"We shall never surrender. Even if..., which i do not for a moment believe, this Island, or a large part of it, were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, would carry on the struggle, until in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old"- Winston Churchill
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