Speeches and orators

dimanche 25 janvier 2015
par Me Esse

- Barack Obama is a talented orator : watch the video below and try to understand how he manages to deal with a heckler during his immigration reform speech in San Francisco.

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- Churchill’s speeches during World War 2 are also very famous. they boosted the nation’s moral in a time of deprivation and suffering, and remain in the memory of a lot of people.

’We shall fight on the beaches’

This is perhaps Churchill’s most famous speech, used in television and film programmes reflecting on the PM’s life for decades to come.

It was not an address given live to the nation, but to the Commons, with only MPs and staff able to hear its debut.

However, there is no doubt it will be remembered as one of the most powerful political oratories of all time.

"The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills ; we shall never surrender, and 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, armed and guarded by the British fleet, 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 the liberation of the old."

House of Commons - 4 June 1940

- King Geoge VI, who reigned during the war after his brother’s abdication, also delivered famous speeches. One of them you can hear here, in the film "The King’s speech"


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