Bloomsburg University
Public Speaking
James E. Tomlinson

Follow the instructions you were given in class for this exercise. Recall the discussion of other examples used in class. How do the examples presented here compare and contrast to the quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Abraham Lincoln?

EXAMPLE # 1
"Mr. President, we would not trust you with our health care, we would not trust you with our 21 year old daughters, we certainly will not trust you with our guns."
Charlton Heston NRA 1998 Convention

EXAMPLE #2
"...(there are those who would use this tragedy (Littleton Colorado) to create a) harvest of hatred......we are engaged in a struggle between the reckless and the prudent......News anchors drench their microphones in the tears of victims.....political reputations and media fortunes bloom atop fresh graves.......on the nightly news, the carnage is accompanied by dramatic graphics....but we will not abandon our singular sacred duty...." Charlton Heston NRA 1999 Convention May 1, 1999.

EXAMPLE #3
"...Lady Liberty is not made out of stone, she is real, she is Rosa Parks."   Jesse Jackson - White House ceremony honoring Rosa Parks, June 18, 1999.

EXAMPLE #4
"I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions, and I worry terribly that I might end up being too clear......I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I   meant."   Fed  Chair Alan Greenspan - quoted in the Nightly Business Report Online - August 8, 1999. 

EXAMPLE # 5  Click here to read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

EXAMPLE # 6 Click here to read the Declaration of Independence

EXAMPLE #7  Click here to go to the page with the Eulogy delivered by Senator Edward Kennedy for his nephew, John F. Kennedy Jr.

EXAMPLES  # 8,9,10,11,12,13 Click to view the sound files