#speeches

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy. ↗

— Edward Everett

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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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