Choose your favourite Battle Speech or quote another one which you like.

Braveheart

I am William Wallace, and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?

Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom?! Alba gu brath! (Scotland forever!)


Lord of the Rings

Arise! Arise, Riders of Théoden. Spears shall be shaken! Shields shall be splintered! A sword day! A red day! Ere the sun rises!. Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin, and the world's ending! Death!


Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!


The 13th Warrior

Lo, there do I see my father
Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers
Lo, there do I see the line of my people bac to the beginning
Lo, they do call to me
They bid me take place among them in the Halls of Valhalla. Where the brave may live forever...


Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

Wish to end this? Wish to go home? Then we must stop fighting amongst ourselves! And face that the price worth may be dear...But I for one would rather die and spend my life with hiding. The Sheriff calls us outlaws, but I say we are free! And one free man defending his home is more powerful then ten hired soldiers. The Crusades taught me that. I will make you no promises, safe one; that when you truly believe in your hearts that you're free then I say we can win!


Gladiator

In three weeks time, I shall be harvesting my grapes. Imagine what you would be doing, and it will be so.Fight with honour! If you find yourselves alone, riding through green fields with the sun in your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you?d be already dead!


Independance Day

Good morning. In less than one hour planes from here and all around the world will launch the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind...Mankind. The word has new meaning for all of us now. We are reminded not of our petty differences but of our common interests.

Perhaps it's fate that today, July the Fourth, we will once again fight for our freedom. Not from tyranny, persecution or oppression. But from
annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exit. From this day on, the fourth day of July will no longer be remembered as an American holiday but as the day that all of mankind declared we will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We will live on. We will survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

 

all we are saying is give peace a chance

 

*Says a bunch of fancy words*...Upon St. Crispin Day!

 

The Princess Bride

My name is Inego Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

 

Damnit, I was going to say Aragorn's quote, just like 1,563 other people.

 

No problem. Don't need to say it. You chose it as your favourite.

 

Favourite battle quote:

"Aaaaahhhhhhh"

 

My favorite is easily Aragorn's quote from ROTK.

 

That's it, go ahead and run. Run home and cry to mama! Me? I'm through runnin'! I say we stay here and fight it out!

Ash - Army of Darkness

 

"ATTACK!" -Nazi/Allie, Enemy Territory.

 

"Runaway!"

Holy Grail

 

Best. Speech. Ever.

 

The wilhelm.

 

St. Crispian's Day Speech
Henry V, By William Shakespeare

This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

 

Forth Eorlingas!

ORingBearer

 

Snootch to the Mother ******* Noonch!

-Jay from Dogma.

 

The speech given by the president in Independance Day.

 

wow! Yeah I forgot that Beezel. Thanks for reminding me!

I'll edit my first post to include it.

 

In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.

Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.

We will be united in our common interests.

Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July; and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.

We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.

And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:

"We will not go quietly into the night.

We will not vanish without a fight.

We're going to live on.

We're going to survive."

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!

ORingBearer


....May 5th? ?

 

That's it! I love that speech.

 

that is a very nice one. I've always enjoyed Bill Pullman

 

"YEEEYEEEEYEEEEYEEYEEEEEEE!!!!!!"



tf

 

G Gundam

This hand of mine is burning red!
It's loud cry tells me to defeat you!
Now take my love, my anger, and ALL OF MY SORROW!

 

Bluto in Animal House.

 

We shall fight on the beaches
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, "come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."
-Churchill

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal. I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

Their Finest Hour
I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
-Churchill

I?m amazed that no one has mentioned Churchill at all. Those are in my opinion three of the greatest speeches ever given in any language ? and they were real, unlike pretty much everything else I see in this thread. The power of Churchill?s words is virtually unmatched. He had such an amazing command of the English language, and he was the leader of a nation with its back to the wall facing one of the most powerful and evil governments of all time, and there was no flinching in his words, nothing but the firmest of resolve.