Farewell Speech

A Farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons relating to reasons for their leaving. The term is often used as a euphemism for "retirement speech", though it is broader in that it may include geographical or even biological conclusion. In the Classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion (ἀποβατήριον), standing opposed to the epibaterion (ἐπιβατήριον), the corresponding speech made upon arrival.

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Famous quotes containing the words farewell and/or speech:

    Whether we shall meet again I know not.
    Therefore our everlasting farewell take.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
    Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)