Comments on: All Time Best Speeches

By: MCQ

MCQ — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:52:40 +0000

judith, the links for the ones I discuss in the post are above, just click on their titles. As for the rest of the top five, two are mentioned in comment 1:

http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=e88b8949f2f6b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=5eded9cbdb01c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

I have not yet found a link for the fifth, but when I do, I will post it.

By: judith m

judith m — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:26:20 +0000

I’d like to read your five favorite speeches. Where would I find them?

By: Aaron R.

Aaron R. — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:01:54 +0000

The WoW context of the Richards one makes it all the more inspiring.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:22:18 +0000

Glad you like them, CC. DavidH, those are some great speeches. Thanks for linking them.

By: Clean Cut

Clean Cut — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:08:47 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Those Holland speeches have given me an idea on what to share at a youth conference this weekend.

By: DavidH

DavidH — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:19:27 +0000

I submitted five talks last night but they don’t show up today. Let me try again.

Five of my favorite great American religious speeches.

1. J. Reuben Clark Jr., “To Them of the Last Wagon,” Ensign, Jul 1997, 35 (reprint)

2. Stephen L. Richards, “Bringing Humanity to the Gospel”, April 1932 conference, printed in https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/015-43-46.pdf

3. Barack Obama, A Call to Renewal, http://www.barackobama.com/2006/06/28/call_to_renewal_keynote_address.php

4. Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

5. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html

By: John Scherer

John Scherer — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:22:05 +0000

I stumbled across Elder Maxwell’s “O, Divine Redeemer” recently, what an amazing testimony! Other talks that came to my mind is Elder Haight’s “The Sacrament-And the Sacrifice” and President Faust’s talk on forgiveness from 2007.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:48:36 +0000

Hugh B. Brown’s “Profile of a Prophet.”

By: TStevens

TStevens — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:23:13 +0000

Ezra Taft Benson’s GC talk on Pride come out while I was on my mission. I really needed it and it help change me and my mission experience for the better. I think it was April of 1988.

By: Aaron R.

Aaron R. — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:49:27 +0000

The Holland section on the Temple I read verbatim for a talk I gave at a Ward Conference last year. btw, this is the only time I have ever read in a talk (aside from short quotations). Very powerful.

I found the Incovenient Messiah as a Missionary and it has been a touchstone for me now over the last six years.

I would also include ‘And none were with him.’ That talk affected me very deeply.