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The Speech JFK never gave.
Speeches have not become irrelevant, but they have lost their reverence in our modern age. In an always-on world, the oratorical flourish has been replaced by the sound bite and …
Shadow. Random thoughts on Lincoln’s Greatest Speech. Part 2
‘I never knew a man who wished himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires it for himself.” A. Lincoln (March 24, 1864) In …
Shadow. Random thoughts on Lincoln’s greatest speech
The Gettysburg Address casts an understandably long shadow on Lincoln’s other oratory triumphs. It emerged from one of the most horrific battles in our history – 8,000 soldiers in a …
The quiet voice. Jefferson’s first inaugural.
Note to readers: Contemporaries of Thomas Jefferson would not be surprised that he left explicitly detailed instructions for the creation of his tombstone. “A plain die or cube of 3 …
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