英报评出影响世界的25个重要演讲
http://news.sohu.com/20080725/n258375962.shtmlhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2008-07/25/content_8767577.htmhttp://news.sina.com.cn/w/2008-07-25/113614217463s.shtmlhttp://news.nen.com.cn/72344579457679360/20080726/2476407.shtmlhttp://news.ifeng.com/history/1/jishi/200807/0725_2663_676127.shtml那么让我们看看前十二名都是些虾米内容。
12 Geoffrey Howe, November 13, 1990
Howe, a long-time loyal Thatcherite, was deemed by many to have been one of the great Chancellors, which made his Commons resignation speech, in the wake of what he saw as intolerable behaviour by Thatcher over Europe, all the more devastating. Thatcher was bundled out of office by her own side two weeks later.
“It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only for them to find, as the first balls are being bowled, that their bats have been broken.”
英国前外交大臣、英中协会名誉主席杰弗里• 豪勋爵在1990年11月13日的演讲，内容是抨击撒切尔夫人的。
11 Vaclav Havel, January 1, 1990
After decades of repressive state control, poet and playwright Havel gave voice to the new tide of liberty that was sweeping through Eastern Europe, calling on citizens to build a “republic economically prosperous and yet socially just”.
“We live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. We learned not to believe in anything, to ignore each other, to care only about ourselves.”
瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔 捷克的剧作家与异议人士，于1993年到2002年间担任捷克共和国的总统。内容是谈论时政。
10 Margaret Thatcher, October 10, 1980
In the midst of ongoing economic gloom, scepticism about Thatcher's prescription was everywhere when she made her second conference speech as Prime Minister. But she refused to buckle, and her joke about U-turns defined her premiership.
“You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.”
铁娘子撒切尔夫人在1980年10月10日发表的演讲，内容是经济外交问题。
9 Jawaharlal Nehru, August 14, 1947
After almost three centuries, Britain’s presence in India ended at midnight on August 14, 1947. Nehru, the leader of the Congress Party and the first prime minister of independent India, described this as the rebirth of his country.
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”
印度总理贾瓦哈拉尔尼赫鲁在1947年8月14日发表的演讲，这句是他的名言。
8 Robert Kennedy, April 4, 1968
The younger brother of assassinated president John F. Kennedy announced the killing of black civil rights leader Martin Luther King to a crowd of African Americans in Indianapolis, appealing for Americans to show the love, calm and compassion that Dr King had demonstrated throughout his life. Just two months later, Kennedy himself was gunned down after winning the Democratic primary in California.
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.”
这个是罗伯特肯尼迪在他哥哥遇刺后的1968年4月4日发表的演讲，但是他后来也遭刺杀。
7 Harold Macmillan, February 3, 1960
In the first sign that the British government accepted that the days of Empire were over, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke frankly against South Africa's apartheid system while addressing the country's parliament.
“The wind of change is blowing through this continent.”
英国首相罗德麦克米伦在1960年2月3日，对种族隔离制度发表的演讲。
6 Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963
During the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King addressed 200,000 supporters on the theme of racial equality. Delivered in the style of a Baptist sermon, the speech drew on the Bible, the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character."
这个演讲就太有名了，是马丁路德金的。地球人都知道。
5 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4 1933
In his first inaugural address, FDR spoke to an American public in the depths of the Great Depression. He exhorted his countrymen to dig deep and endure, and to trust in his leadership.
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
这个也很有名，美国总统罗斯福在1933年3月4日发表的针对经济危机的演讲。
4 Nelson Mandela May 10, 1994
Mandela's inaugural speech marked the moment when South Africa’s first black president took power and apartheid was buried once and for all. Mandela hailed a rare moment of hope in Africa and pledged to live up to the aspirations he had raised.
“Never, never and never again shall this beautiful land again experience the oppression of one by another.”
这个是南非总统曼德拉1994年5月10日的就职演说。
3 Ronald Reagan, June 12, 1987
Speaking to West Germans but within earshot of East Germans on the other side of the Berlin Wall, Mr Reagan stood before the Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and delivered the most memorable message of his presidency. The wall, built in 1961, was a potent symbol of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union; in November 1989, Berliners tore down the wall.
“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalisation: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
这个是美国总统里根对柏林墙倒塌发表的讲话。
2 John F Kennedy, June 26, 1963
Cold War tensions could hardly have been higher when Kennedy arrived in Berlin in June, 1963. Two years after the Berlin Wall went up, and a year after the Cuban missile crisis, his spine-tingling message of solidarity with encircled West Berliners – “Ich bin ein Berliner” - became an instant classic.
“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.”
这个就是刚才那个罗伯特肯尼迪的大哥了，这篇演讲的内容是在古巴导弹危机后对冷战的评论。
1 Winston Churchill, August 20, 1940
At the height of the Battle of Britain, Churchill gave his landmark speech in the House of Commons, paying tribute to the Royal Air Force pilots whose struggle was eventually to win the battle. Churchill’s measured but soaring rhetoric was a source of great inspiration and comfort for a nation under the greatest sustained bombing campaign to date and confronting the prospect of a German invasion.
"The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
最后这个第一名当然还是给了他们自己的丘吉尔，演讲也是大家都知道的二战爆发的演讲。
大家都看完了吧？但我实在没发现这前十二名有什么不妥，居然被国内所有网站河蟹。看来某些人确实有点脑残。
