Do you have a favorite speech? Which one?

I was just listening to some Jay Electronica, and in the song Jazzmatazz were excerpts of Martin Luther King's last speech, and it got me thinking. What speeches have really roused you? What speeches have inspired you? I want to know! Copy the text or paste a Youtube-link. Just so we're clear, I'm talking whole speeches or parts of one. Not a sentence or a couple of words, let's try to stick to a few lines or more!
 
I don't know if this is my favorite. Charlie Chaplin had a pretty good one in "The Great Dictator", but this is the most recent one I've really liked.
 
The last part of the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech: 

Are we talking real life speeches or just any speech across media that has caught our fancy?

Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator.

Keeping it video game related....

IRL, there are too many to pick just one.

I have a dream...a dream of my really hot English teacher.

The King's.

No, not really.

This is what i have so far, if i think of somthing else i will post it.

Sweet!

And the last is not so much a speech, as just a fucking epic moment.

@liquidsword said:

Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator.

I only heard that for the first time last week, and was blown away.

I've always liked this one:

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@Titus said:

@MysteriousBob: I see what you did there! Honestly, though, I can't quite recall what that speech was about. Stuff? Hitler still got out of that 30s speech battle on top, what with the hand waving and that moustache and the melon.

Thats the thing, there was nothing special about the speech. Its just the story of him delivering any speech to his people. If you're curious though, the original broadcast can be found online.

Pussies, Dicks, and Asshole monologue from the end of Team America moved me to tears.

EDIT: The video was not working, so here's a link.    
    First thing that came in mind. I'm not even American and i barely follows America political history and things like that, but... The way this guy talks is just... WOW!

I am well aware this doesn't count.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Speech. Beautiful and inspiring speech from start to finish.

@Psykhophear: I didn't realise creatures without souls could give emotional speeches.

Jim Valvano's ESPYs speech

@MysteriousBob: Cold, bro

@Titus said:

@MysteriousBob: I see what you did there! Honestly, though, I can't quite recall what that speech was about. Stuff? Hitler still got out of that 30s speech battle on top, what with the hand waving and that moustache and the melon.

Thats the thing, there was nothing special about the speech. Its just the story of him delivering any speech to his people. If you're curious though, the original broadcast can be found online.

Big fan of this one

I thought it was cool that they had this on youtube. He gets really enthusiastic about stuff around 2:00.

@MysteriousBob: Meanie! I take it you're not a fan of Apple products of any kind? But in any case, either you're a fan or not, you gotta respect Steve Jobs. It's not just about the products he created. It's about the way he thinks, how he conducted businesses and his creativity. This dude changed the world.

@Titus: Well, not the kind of message he was going for but yeah, you could say that :P

I never have found speeches all that ... what could be the right word .... interesting/honest/impactful :/ I dont know ; I just cant stop from thinking of them being hypocrital moments (I blame politicians).

I love MLK. I can read anything written by him and enjoy it intensely. Quite an intelligent writer. I personally love the I Have A Dream speech and I view it as one of the greatest moments in American history, where we were unified under the notion of equality for everyone. I think I might also have to include Ralph Emerson's Divinity School Address. His thoughts on metaphysics were quite progressive and profound. Plus the divinity school never let him back after that one which is kinda bad ass.

I was born on Martin Luther King's birthday and as a kid growing up I always looked up to him. His "I Have A Dream" speech gives me goosebumps to this day.

The Great Dictator speech is even awesome-er with Inception music

@Psykhophear: I didn't realise creatures without souls could give emotional speeches.

PROSPERO

You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
If you be pleased, retire into my cell
And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

I *heart* Jon Stewart.

Whether or not you agree with the political messages behind the speech(and the entire movie/comic, for that matter).. this is a damn good speech from an epic movie:

Horrible movie, but I always like Pacino's speech in Any Given Sunday.

Great speech and great speaker. Still get shivers.

I'm also going with The Great Dictator speech. Honestly, I just now looked up the source because I've only heard it in this song. Pretty powerful stuff.

@BlinkyTM said:

I thought it was cool that they had this on youtube. He gets really enthusiastic about stuff around 2:00.

no but seriously fuck that guy.

I've always been partial to the Emancipation Proclamation. Barely 2 minutes long and it's so elegantly written.

My favorite speech...hm... lets see for now it`s probably when Buffy talk to her sister befor she take her one life to save the world in seson 5 episode 22

The hardest thing in this world is to live in it!

I had to memorize the Gettysburg Address in 7th grade. That thing stayed attached to my mom's fridge for an additional seven years with a magnet. I couldn't figure out how it worked.

MLK "I have a dream" As Claude says, gives you goosebumps everytime.

@NeVeRMoRe666 said:

Great speech and great speaker. Still get shivers.

Wow.

Consider againthat dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

- Carl Sagan

@liquidsword said:

Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator.

This was the first thing I thought about when I saw this thread. You beat me to it. Interesting about that movie. supposedly Chaplin sent a copy to Hitler. Later he rumor that he watched it twice.

O'Brien torturing Winston in 1984. Funny that the person that posted this clip on YouTube quoted the line that has always stuck with me.

"Imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."

Gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes when I listen to this in light of what the U.S. has come to and where it is going. When you have congress passing laws that allow for the military to indefinitely detain an American citizen without trial (new NDAA bill), then our country is already doomed. America itself has been declared a battlefield in the war on terror.They could say you are a terrorist sympathizer and you could just up and disappear forever. Hell, Obama has already authorized the successful murder of a U.S. citizen over seas (Anwar Al-Aulaqi).

HAIL SAGAN!

It's a small speech but can be emotionally powerful.