what was the greatest speech in the history of history ?

Question

and who said it?

Answer 1

Winston Churchill inaugurating the Battle of Britain.
Listen to it here...
http://www.saveourhistory.com/media.do?id=v3t4&action=clip

Answer 2

The one given by King Henry V on the morning of the battle of Agincourt in Shakespeares play (Henry V). Although it was fictional it counts as it's so stirring it could rouse a dead Scotsman and turn him into flag waving, French killing, St George loving Englishman. It's too long to write here but check it out especially Kenneth Brannagh rendition in the Henry V film, awe inspiring and no doubt an inspiration to Churchill and his great war speeches.

Answer 3

Pope Urban II's speech which launched the Crusades often gets called the most influential speech in history.

Answer 4

I think either Martin Luthur 'i have a dream' or Winston Churchill 'never in the field of conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few'... but i also like this one by Bill Gates to Mt. Whitney high school in Visalia, CA...

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! He listed 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1:
Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2:
The world won`t care about your self-steem The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3:
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won`t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4:
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5:
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Rule 6:
If you mess up, it`s not your parents` fault, so don`t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7:
Before you were born, your parents weren`t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent`s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8:
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they`ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn`t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9:
Life is not divided into semesters. You don`t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10:
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11:
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you`ll end up working for one.

Answer 5

'Friends, Romans, Countrymen...' from Julius Caesar was recently voted the Best Political Speech, despite the fact it's fictional.

Answer 6

Martin luther king jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. The impact of such a speech cannot be stated. 1 million people on hand to listen to it.

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln's Gettyburg Address or Antony's "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears..." from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Answer 8

The speech I gave right after dropping a cement block on my toe.

Answer 9

Moses passing on a blue print for a moral life - the Ten Commandments

Answer 10

The Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God) is said to be the summum-bonum of the philosophy of God, the spotless purana of the vedas. It was spoken by God Himself, five thousand years ago, on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, to a warrior by the name of Arjuna.