Book: Speeches That Changed the World
"Ich bin ein Berliner" -JFK, (At the Berlin Wall, 26 June 1963)
(Translations:
Intended translation: I am a Berliner.
Unintended translation: I am a jelly doughnut)
"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." -Jawaharlal Nehru (About Indian independance, 14 August 1947)
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." -Winston Churchill (London, May 13 1940)
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." -Winston Churchill (London, 20 August 1940)
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -FDR (Inaugural address, 4 March 1933)
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941-a date that will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." -FDR (About Pearl Harbor, 8 December 1941)
"Free at last" -Nelson Mandela (Johannesburg 2 May 1994)
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