By Steve Israel
One of many top voices on nationwide safety matters within the U.S. Congress demonstrates how phrases were sharp and robust guns of victory during this compilation of serious army speeches that helped flip the tide of heritage. one of the dozens of inspirational speeches featured are: Moses teaching his fans to move the Jordan River with no him. . . Queen Elizabeth pledging to die along with her squaddies as they confronted the Spanish Armada. . . Patrick Henry determining among liberty and loss of life. . . Napoleon exhorting his troops as they marched on Egypt. . . Winston Churchill rallying his country to victory. . . normal Sir Montgomery refusing to retreat from Rommel. . . President Roosevelt getting ready the yankee humans for global conflict II. . . normal Eisenhower fortifying his troops for the invasion of Normandy. . . President Reagan challenging that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall. . . President George W. Bush encouraging the USA after 9-11. . . and extra.
Congressman Israel has incorporated speeches that experience prompted and mobilized, challenged and comforted. a few have been blurted within the warmth of wrestle, others have been rigorously written in areas a ways faraway from the brutality of the battlefield, yet all will encourage readers with the braveness that moved humans ahead opposed to all odds. every one speech is brought with an insightful historical context. This dramatic sweep of army heritage within the phrases of history's army leaders serves to enhance the concept the pen is mightier than the sword.
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And it was for this reason that I have spoken at such length about our city, because I wanted to make it clear for us there is more at stake than there is for others who lack our advantages; also I wanted my words of praise for the dead to be set in the bright light of evidence. And now the most important of these words has been spoken. I have sung the praises of our city; but it was the courage and gallantry of these men, and people like them, which made her splendid. Nor would you find it true in the case of many of the Greeks, as it is true of them, that no words can do more than justice to their deeds.
As for those of you who are sons or brothers of the dead, I can see a hard struggle in front of you. Everyone always speaks well of the dead, and, even if you rise to the greatest heights of heroism, it will be a hard thing for you to get the reputation of having come near, let alone equaled, their standard. When one is alive, one is always liable to the jealousy of one’s competitors, but when one is out of the way, the honor one receives is sincere and unchallenged. Perhaps I should say a word or two on the duties of women to those among you who are now widowed.
But if it does not make peace with you, and it wages war against you, you shall besiege it, 13. and the Lord, your God, will deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike all its males with the edge of the sword. 14. However, the women, the children, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoils you shall take for yourself, and you shall eat the spoils of your enemies, which the Lord, your God, has given you. 15. Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.