经典英文演讲100篇

On behalf of the great Empire State and the whole family of New York, let me thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention.

I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and of all colors, from every section of this country, to join me in that cause.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans.

《选票还是子弹》（The Ballot or the Bullet）是美国黑人民权运动领导人物之一马尔科姆·艾克斯（Malcolm X）于1964年4月3日在种族平等委员会克利夫兰市举行研讨会上发表的著名演讲。

And now we’re told that the men who fought there must watch quietly while American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible arrogance of Vietnamizing the Vietnamese.

We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people before God, before the law, and in the councils of government.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.

You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

So let us here highly resolve that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not live or die in vain.

It gives me pleasure to add to this formal reading of the result of our labors that the character of the discussion which occurred at the sittings of the commission was not only of the most constructive but of the most encouraging sort.

I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.