Answers To: Friends, Romans, Countrymen... By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved False. He was referring to the British people, rallying them to support the war effort in 1940. B. The sermon was given by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the parish priest of Dolores, Mexico, in 1810. True. A. Bismarck gave this speech in 1862 to a group of King Wilhelm's ministers. He became known as the Iron Chancellor. False. Robespierre was executed by guillotine. A. Bolívar gave this address in the town of Angostura, which has been renamed Ciudad Bolívar. True. Aranha was a president of the United Nations General Assembly. B. This line was from a sermon he delivered in occupied Brussels in 1916. True. D. Mandela spent more than twenty-seven years in prison. He quoted from this defense speech in another speech after his release in 1990.