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Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, delivered her famous Declaration of Conscience speech on June 1, 1950, on the floor of ...
Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...
A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...
The podium granted to these commencement speakers doesn’t belong to the speaker. It is a platform designed for a specific ...
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity.
Hypocrisy never builds nations, it destroys instead ...
Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.
He was there to discuss the possibility of painting a 42-by-25-foot mural of Abraham Lincoln ... what has since become known as “Lincoln’s Lost Speech,” a famous gap in Lincoln’s otherwise ...
In 1972, Jimmy Reid warned in a speech hailed as the greatest since Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by the New York Times against ‘silence in the face of injustice’ for fear of ...
When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in ... he might have left two partial fingerprints on the famous passage. It’s a smudge that has intrigued historians.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln defied the odds by winning the ... Wood said he's memorized several of Lincoln's most famous speeches. "'The Gettysburg Address' is the obvious one, right?