From the powerful words of Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, and Pierre Trudeau, to rallying calls during war, civil rights movements, and national turning points, these speeches have echoed ...

Speeches are made to be spoken out loud, and long words bog the speaker down. Think your great thoughts, and then find a way to say them as simply as possible. 3.

Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967 at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California.

The best political speeches aren't always the ones that are well-written or well-delivered, says Michael Cohen, author of Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches ...

There's little left to be said, but Abraham Lincoln's ten sentence missive at Gettysburg is remembered by many as the greatest speech in American political history. Though it was met with a ...

It’s another book on Abraham Lincoln, but this one, “His Greatest Speeches,” is for “a slow reader,” says its author, Diana Schaub, a professor at Loyola University, Maryland.

As President Obama is set to give his first speech of the second term of his presidency here is a look at the five best speeches of Obama’s political career up to this point. 1. “The Audacity ...

Great speeches, he adds, are made on occasions of emotional turmoil — of which he cites numerous possibilities.

Darrell Green has arguably the greatest opening line in the history of Hall of Fame speeches: "Deacon Jones said I'm going to cry. You bet your life I'm going to cry!" And cry he did.

The good bishop of Antioch has proposed that the three greatest speeches of all time belong to the same orator, namely, God. Now, if God is the “Word,” we should expect that he would speak.

The Greatest Motivational Speeches in Sports History It's Ray Lewis' birthday, so in honor of the future Hall of Famer, we look at some of the greatest speeches ever given in the history of sports.

THE greatest presidential address of our time was given last night by a man that many (including this writer) once mindlessly and pompously derided for his halting style of speech. No more. Not ever.