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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan

Intelligence Squared

CHAPTER

The Moon Speech

The 20th century has had such progress that it's harder to make great speeches. When you're arguing to a 60 million people democracy or in your case, far, far more than that, you're having to be more demonic. The audacity of building a space program from nothing and putting a man on the moon in seven years is the type of thing we don't get anymore in our speeches. It's not even John F. Kennedy's best speech. I put his inaugural address at American University above it, but it's my favourite.

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