Although it seems we’ve been trained not to expect anything more, a political speech doesn’t have to be a poorly stitched together mash of platitudes and half truths. Some people have expressed great ideas with such simplicity and power that everything after has become a footnote. If you want to hear some of the most powerful words ever spoken, click here to go to American Rhetoric’s Top 100 Speeches. In the meantime, here are some of those speeches that we’ve found particularly stirring…
