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In a speech in the House, Wilmot said, “ I plead the cause and the rights of white freemen I would preserve to free white labor a fair country, a rich inheritance, where the sons of toil, of my own race and own color, can live without the disgrace which association with negro slavery brings upon free labor .” Around the same time, however, Wilmot, in a New York speech, spoke of the ultimate demise of slavery when he argued, “ Keep it within given limits … and in time it will wear itself out.
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Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.
Patrick Henry is best known for the speech he made in the House of Burgesses on March 23, 1775, in Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
The US Library of Congress Federal Research Division reported it in 2006 as having generally good freedom of speech and human rights records, while Freedom House listed it as " free " in 2011, giving it scores of 2 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties.
In his speech to the House of Commons on the Inquiry, British Prime Minister David Cameron stated: " These are shocking conclusions to read and shocking words to have to say.
However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.
* 1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20, 000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts " within reasonable limits ".
In his maiden speech in the House of Commons Dewar railed against proposed increase on potato tax.
Plischke wrote a 1997 account of visiting Kennedy at the White House weeks before the trip to help compose the speech and teach him the proper pronunciation ; she also claims that the phrase had been translated stateside already by the translator scheduled to accompany him on the trip (" a rather unpleasant man who complained bitterly that he had had to interrupt his vacation just to watch the President ’ s mannerisms ").
The first president of the College, Adonijah Welch, briefly stayed at the Farm House and even wrote his inaugural speech in a bedroom on the second floor.
In the House Adams became a champion of free speech, demanding that petitions against slavery be heard despite a " gag rule " that said they could not be heard.
* 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised Voight's speech.
During his speech at the capital, Voight stated the White House was using " radical Chicago tactics " in hopes to pass health care reform.
Winston Churchill makes his " blood, toil, tears, and sweat " speech to the House of Commons.
In 1977, he had remained in the House of Commons, with Dennis Skinner, while other MPs walked to the Lords to hear the Queen's speech opening the new parliament.
A speech given during the Graduation | commencement ceremonies at Currier House ( Harvard College ) | Currier House of Harvard College
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made a public appearance and speech at the shore of the lake on Bono's behalf.
For a transcript of this speech, see this White House webpage.
Each group of speakers broadcast sound and music from a particular era ( e. g. King Edward VIII's abdication speech ; Gough Whitlam's speech at Parliament House in 1975 ), the overall effect being that the soundscape would " flow " through history as walkers proceeded along the bridge.
In 2000, Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn gave a speech at the White House on the subject of the Ninth Amendment.
Days after the speech, the White House travel office controversy erupted.
In the speech against the Convention in the House of Commons on 8 March 1739 Pitt said:
When the treaty was discussed in parliament in December of the preceding year, though suffering from a severe attack of gout, he was carried down to the House, and in a speech of three hours ' duration, interrupted more than once by paroxysms of pain, he strongly protested against its various conditions.
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Most Northern Whigs, led by William Henry Seward who delivered his famous " Higher Law " speech during the controversy, opposed the Compromise as well because it would not have applied the Wilmot Proviso to the western territories and because of the new fugitive slave law, which would have pressed ordinary citizens into duty on slave-hunting patrols.
In this speech, Miles attacked the principles behind the Wilmot Proviso.
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It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.
`` Senator '', said an interviewer, `` your constituents can't understand from your speech last night just how you stand on the question ''.
no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.
In his speech accepting the nomination, Johnson said that by taking a nominee from a seceding state, " the Union Party declared its belief that the rebellious states are still in the Union, that their loyal citizens are still citizens of the United States.
* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.
In 1944, Joseph Stalin said in a speech that artillery was " the God of War ".
On 19 June 1920 Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Smyth made a speech to the ranks of the Listowel RIC in which he was reported as having said:
Trumbo said in a speech given in 1970 that there was blame on all sides:
In some cultures, they are also said to be capable of human speech.
" At this speech he also said: " Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery ...."
In a speech delivered on November 15, 1867, Douglass said " A man's rights rest in three boxes.
In his speech at the presentation of the medal, Alexander Graham Bell said:
For example Winston Churchill 1941 said in a broadcast speech: " There are less than 70, 000, 000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage.
Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.
On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.
In his 1933 speech, " Radio as the Eighth Great Power " he said:
In 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler had said:
'" In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress who played Brown, said " I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
Polk made his first major speech on March 13, 1826, in which he said that the Electoral College should be abolished and that the President should be elected by the popular vote.
During his acceptance speech, Cagney lightly chastised impressionist Frank Gorshin, saying, " Oh, Frankie, just in passing, I never said ' MMMMmmmm, you dirty rat!
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