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Below, are excerpts from four speeches of four different great Americans. The speeches are famous, but the excerpt is not the most famous part of the speech. See if you can guess who is the speaker from what is given.
1. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
2. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.
3. And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
4. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished.
1. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
2. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.
3. And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
4. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished.
Hint
All speeches are from at least 40 years ago, but all four speeches and men are famous in American history.Answer
1. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 18632. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941 (Day after Pearl Harbor)
3. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, I Have a Dream speech, August 28,1963
4. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" address to Congress, 19 April 1951.
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