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.

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.

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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.

Bentinck, then still Conservative leader in the Commons, joined Disraeli in speaking and voting for the bill, although his own speech was a standard one of toleration.

The members of the Commons, meanwhile, protested that they had the privilege of free speech within the Commons ' walls.

Pepys made a long speech at the bar of the Commons on 5 March 1668 defending this practice.

Pitt's maiden speech in the Commons was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to George II on the marriage of his son Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Also on that day he gave his last speech to the House of Commons.

* March 31 – Neville Chamberlain gives a speech in the House of Commons offering the British " guarantee " of the independence of Poland.

Three days after the speech, on 23 April, as the Race Relations Bill was being debated in the House of Commons, 1, 000 dockers marched on Westminster protesting against Powell's " victimisation ", and the next day 400 meat porters from Smithfield market handed in a 92-page petition in support of Powell, amidst other mass demonstrations of working class support, much of it from trade unionists, in London and Wolverhampton.

On 16 July, Powell gave a speech in the Commons in which he said the riots could not be understood unless one takes into consideration the fact that in some large cities between a quarter and a half of those under 25 were immigrant or descended from immigrants.

After the Scarman Report on the riots was published, Powell gave a speech on 10 December in the Commons.

In a speech in the Commons on 7 April, Powell claimed the nuclear hypothesis had been shaken by two events.

Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.

Some sources incorrectly refer to the June 1982 speech before the British House of Commons as the " Evil Empire " speech, but while Reagan referred twice to totalitarianism in his London speech, the exact phrase " evil empire " did not appear in any speech until later in his Presidency.

On 11 June 1942 he made his last-ever speech in the House of Commons, and he cast his last vote in the Commons on 18 February 1943 as one of the 121 MPs ( 97 Labour ) condemning the Government for its failure to back the Beveridge Report.

Heath made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 26 June 1950, in which he appealed to the Labour Government to participate in the Schuman Plan.

In 1874, Disraeli's ambitious foreign policy, aimed at creating a British empire, is voted down by the House of Commons after a speech by his great rival, William Gladstone.

The orator of this period, in order to earn a reputation, had to pay close attention to the formal composition of his speech, judging how it would appear in print as well as the effect it would have on the audience that heard it.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

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.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

`` Senator '', said an interviewer, `` your constituents can't understand from your speech last night just how you stand on the question ''.

At the close of Davis' speech the following preamble and resolutions were read by the president, and on the question of their adoption passed unanimously:

Much of this lifelike quality results from Mussorgsky's care in basing his vocal line on natural speech inflections.

The poem does not distort the syntax of ordinary speech nor draw on exotic sources of diction, yet it is obviously not ordinary speech -- only Hardy would say `` a grin of bitterness swept thereby ; ;

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

Not that he gave a damn what the grapevine sent out about Killpath's little speech on the comportment of platoon commanders.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

They may be as basic as pictures on a board that the are used to request food, drink, or other care ; or they can be advanced speech generating devices, based on speech synthesis, that are capable of storing hundreds of phrases and words.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

For example, where a person has committed harmful actions of body, speech and mind based on greed, hatred and delusion, rebirth in a lower realm, i. e. an animal, a ghost or a hell realm, is to be expected.

The Rochester Method focuses on oral language and speech, spelling spoken words.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

* 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.