Categoría: Discursos
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Freedom or Death speech
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en DiscursosI do not come here as an advocate, because whatever position the suffrage movement may occupy in the United States of America, in England it has passed beyond the realm of advocacy and it has entered into the sphere of practical politics. It has become the subject of revolution and civil war, and so tonight…
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Adress at Gettisburg
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en DiscursosFriends and Fellow Citizens: I need not tell you what the Battle of Gettysburg meant. These gallant men in blue and gray sit all about us here. Many of them met upon this ground in grim and deadly struggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died about them. In their presence it were…
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First Inaugural Adress
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en DiscursosTHERE has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the House of Representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed. The Senate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of President and Vice-President have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change…
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Manifiesto a la Nación
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en DiscursosLa victoria se acerca, la lucha toca a su fin. Se libran ya los últimos combates y en estos instantes solemnes, de pie y respetuosamente descubiertos ante la nación, aguardamos la hora decisiva, el momento preciso en que los pueblos se hunden o se salvan, según el uso que hacen de la soberanía conquistada, esa…
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The Bull Moose speech (Assasination attempt)
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en DiscursosFriends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is…
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La cuestión clerical
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en DiscursosLa situación es que ninguna personalidad jurídica, ninguna casa, ningún instituto religioso puedan establecerse en España sin cumplir los trámites de la ley de Asociaciones de 1887. Pero es verdad también que de la negociación aparece que los elementos más autorizados para representar la opinión religiosa en España entienden que la ley de 1887, tal…
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The New Nationalism
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en DiscursosWe come here to-day to commemorate one of the epochmaking events of the long struggle for the rights of man – the long struggle for the uplift of humanity. Our country – this great Republic – means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the…
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Citizenship in a Republic
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en DiscursosGeneral Westmoreland, General Grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the Corps! As I was leaving the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, “Where are you bound for, General?†And when I replied, “West Point,†he remarked, “Beautiful place. Have you ever been there before?†No human being could fail to be deeply moved by…
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Limehouse speech
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en DiscursosA few months ago a meeting was held not far from this hall in the heart of the City of London, demanding that the Government should launch into enormous expenditure on the Navy. That meeting ended up with a resolution promising that those who passed the resolution would give financial support to the Government in…
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First Inaugural Address
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en DiscursosMy Fellow-Citizens: ANYONE who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter, or he is lacking in a proper sense of the obligation which the oath imposes.…