Safire, Wm. Lend Me Your Ears - Great Speeches In History.
Justice Ginsburg's speech on Bush v. Gore to the University of Melbourne Law School regarding judicial independence is classic as is Mayor of Minneapolis Hubert H. Humphrey's speech on the urgency of civil rights during the 1948 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia.
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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