Speches

[MarkF]

Got any good speches to share?
heres a recent one from Iraq by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins (many of you have probably seen this one already):

"The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his Nemesis and that we are
bringing about his rightful destruction. There are many regional
commanders who have stains on their souls and they are stoking the fires
of Hell for Saddam. As they die they will know their deeds have brought
them to this place. Show them no pity. But those who do not wish to go
on that journey, we will not send. As for the others, I expect you to
rock their world.

We go to liberate, not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their
country. We are entering Iraq to free a people, and the only flag that
will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Don't treat them as
refugees, for they are in their own country.

I know men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts. They live
with the mark of Cain upon them. If someone surrenders to you, then
remember they have that right in international law, and ensure that one
day they go home to their family. The ones who wish to fight, well, we
aim to please. If there are casualties of war, then remember, when they
woke up and got dressed in the morning they did not plan to die this
day. Allow them dignity in death. Bury them properly, and mark their
graves.

You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest, for your
deeds will follow you down history. Iraq is steeped in history. It is
the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood, and the birth of
Abraham. Tread lightly there. You will have to go a long way to find a
more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis. You will be
embarrassed by their hospitality, even though they have nothing ...

There may be people among us who will not see the end of this campaign.
We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back. There will
be no time for sorrow. Let's leave Iraq a better place for us having
been there.

Our business now, is north."

[Lord Godfrey]

President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has always been on the top of my list due its ability to communicate so much with so few words. General MacArthur's Duty Honor Country speech to the cadets at West Point is also one of my favorites, but it is a little long to post.

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS:

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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 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 here 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.

[Kongamato]

This is the speech that the movie Patton takes from. It is quite different from what is shown in the movie, due to length and content. I like this speech better.

The Speech

[MarkF]

come on I know you guys are sitting on some nifty speaches...