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Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

On Conciliation with America

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Topic

Compromise

Speaker

Edmund Burke

Source

On Conciliation with America

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1775 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

George Wallace

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Topic

Jim Crow Segregation Civil rights

Speaker

George Wallace

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Era

Civil Rights Movement

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Citation

Wallace, George. "Inaugural Speech." 14 Jan. 1963, Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, AL, USA.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

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Topic

Nature of freedom Freedom Political theory

Speaker

Adlai Stevenson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Adlai. "Safeguards Against Communism." 7 Oct. 1952, Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI, USA.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want... Everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... Anywhere in the world.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

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Topic

Freedom of speech and expression Freedom American politics

Speaker

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Four Freedoms." State of the Union Message to Congress. 6 Jan. 1941, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

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Topic

Class warfare

Speaker

William E. Gladstone

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gladstone, William E. Speech in Liverpool. 28 June 1886, Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, England, UK.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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Topic

Threats to freedom Freedom

Speaker

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1783 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Pitt, William. Speech in the House of Lords. House of Lords meeting. 18 Nov. 1783, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

Joseph McCarthy

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Topic

Red Scare Cold War Communism American politics

Speaker

Joseph McCarthy

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

McCarthy, Joseph. "Enemies from Within." Republican's Women's Club meeting. 9 Feb. 1950, Wheeling, WV, USA. Speech.

As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all.

Galeazzo Ciano

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Topic

Taking credit Winning and losing Winning Losing

Author

Galeazzo Ciano

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Italian

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ciano, Galeazzo. Diary entry. 9 Sept. 1942.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Topic

Military industrial complex American politics

Speaker

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Medium

Speech

Genre

Presidential farewell address Political speech

Statement Type

Warning

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Farewell address. 17 Jan. 1961, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Broadcast.

As we know, there are known knowns-there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns-that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Topic

The unknown Epistemology Knowledge American politics

Speaker

Donald Rumsfeld

Medium

Press conference

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Rumsfeld, Donald. Department of Defense news briefing. 12 Feb. 2002, Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA.

Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address

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Topic

Price of freedom

Speaker

Andrew Jackson

Source

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address Presidential farewell addresses

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jackson, Andrew. Farewell address. 4 Mar. 1837, Washington, DC USA.

If an institution is too big to fail, then it is too big to exist.

Bernie Sanders

On bailouts, in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis.

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Topic

2008 Financial Crisis

Author

Bernie Sanders

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Sanders, Bernie. News release. 18 Sept. 2008.

Carthage must be destroyed.

Cato the Elder

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

Cato ended several of his speeches with this phrase after his visit to Carthage in 152 BC.

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Topic

War

Speaker

Cato the Elder

Author

Plutarch

Source

Plutarch's Lives

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Declaration

Language

Latin

Time

149 BC 140s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Cato the Elder. Speech within the Roman Senate prior to the Third Punic War. c. 149 BC, Rome, Italy.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Price of freedom

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Marquis de Lafayette. 2 Apr. 1790.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "The Marquis de Lafayette, April 2, 1790." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.

Donald Trump

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Topic

American politics

Speaker

Donald Trump

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Trump, Donald. Speech at campaign rally. 23 Jan. 2016, Dordt University, Sioux Center, IA, USA.

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle

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Topic

French Resistance World War II

Speaker

Charles de Gaulle

Source

To All French

Medium

Poster

Language

French

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

De Gaulle, Charles. A Tous Le Francais [To All Frenchmen]. 3 Aug. 1940.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

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Topic

Israel-Palestine conflict Peace

Speaker

Anwar Sadat

Medium

Interview

Language

Arabic

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Sadat, Anwar. Interview. New York Times, 9 Mar. 1978.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Equanimity

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." 30 Sept. 1859, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Power of ideas Free exchange of ideas

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Issac McPherson. 13 Aug. 1813.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "Issac McPherson, Aug. 13, 1813." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land.

Mao Zedong

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Topic

Battle of ideas

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Source

On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Chinese

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Zedong, Mao. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Eleventh Session (Enlarged) of the Supreme State Conference. 27 Feb. 1957, Beijing, China.