Original quotes parodied in Peregrin's Election Speech
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
My election speech, in case you hadn't realised, was entirely composed of famous lines from famous people in famous speeches, with a few minor modifications!
Here are the original quotes:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
- Joseph Stalin
Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.'
- Sir Winston Churchill
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- John F Kennedy
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
- Sir Winston Churchill
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King Jr
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.
- William Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
- William Shakespeare
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi! From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
- Martin Luther King Jr
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Sir Winston Churchill
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Sir Winston Churchill