The best speech.

Feel, therefore, my would-be
reformers, my would-be patriots! Do you feel? Do you feel that millions
and millions of the descendants of gods and of sages have become
next-door neighbours to brutes? Do you feel that millions are starving
today, and millions have been starving for ages? Do you feel that
ignorance has come over the land as a dark cloud?

Does it make
you restless? Does it make you sleepless? Has it gone into your blood,
coursing through your veins, becoming consonant with your heartbeats?
Has it made you almost mad? Are you seized with that one idea of the
misery of ruin, and have you forgotten all about your name, your fame,
your wives, your children, your property, even your own bodies? Have you
done that? That is the first step to become a patriot..


You
may feel, then; but instead of spending your energies in frothy talk,
have you found any way out, any practical solution, some help instead of
condemnation, some sweet words to soothe their miseries, to bring them
out of this living death?

Yet that is
not all. Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions?
If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still
dare to do what you think is right? If your wives and children are
against you, if all your money goes, your name dies, your wealth
vanishes, would you still stick to it? Would you still pursue it and go
on steadily towards your own goal? As the great King Bhartrihari says,
"Let the sages blame or let them praise; let the goddess of fortune come
or let her go wherever she likes; let death come today, or let it come
in hundreds of years; he indeed is the steady man who does not move one
inch from the way of truth." Have you got that steadfastness?

If you have
these three things, each one of you will work miracles. You need not
write in the newspapers, you need not go about lecturing; your very face
will shine. If you live in a cave, your thoughts will permeate even
through the rock walls, will go vibrating all over the world for
hundreds of years, maybe, until they will fasten on to some brain and
work out there. Such is the power of thought, of sincerity, and of
purity of purpose. "

-Swami Vivekananda.