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Original, impressive and rememberable sound-bites are not so easy to create. it is not just Barack Obama who plagarises from the speeches of others. The linked article gives a good selevtion. Here is one example:

“In 1940, Churchill's statement to the House of Commons - ''I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'' - had its 1823 antecedent in Byron's words: ''Year after year they voted cent per cent,/Blood, sweat and tear-wrung millions. . . .'' Byron's precursor was John Donne who said in 1611, ''Mollify it with thy tears, or sweat, or blood.'' ”

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Selected quotes by Ronald Reagan, H.L. Mencken, Henry Ford, Adolph Hitler, Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe, George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Donald Rumsfeld. Also General selected quotations.