Stirring words spoken boldly

Excellent linkage by garret last night to a site called Amercian Rhetoric! The site, developed by Michael E. Eidenmuller (a professor at the University of Texas at Tyler), includes many recordings of famous speeches (audio and video) as well as transcripts where possible. I was browsing through his list of the Top 100 American Speeches and thought: If only the words spoken in those speeches were realized in our lives, well, we’d probably find other things to kvetch about since that is the human condition. But we’d be kvetching from a much higher plateau!