JFK Inauguration Speech
"I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation."
This quote is an example of the Argument from Omniscience fallacy. JFK speaks for everybody when he says he wouldn't trade places and is being one sided. There may be many people who would like to have lived at a different time or place. This speech, though largely famous, commits many fallacies. I believe that a speech can be so effective and so well-remembered even if it contains lots of fallacies. If a speech has a subject matter that is of huge national importance or comes at a troubled time, it will stand the test of time as a great speech no matter what techniques it uses.
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