The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) EditionLewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel. Among the memorable speeches included here are Pericles' funeral oration, St. Bernard's advocacy of the Second Crusade, William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, Winston Churchill's "Blood, Sweat and Tears" address, Richard Nixon's speech to the astronauts on the moon, Malcolm X's address on the Black Revolution, and many more. Readers will also find time-honored declamations by St. Francis, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Leon Trotzky, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dylan Thomas, Fulton J. Sheen, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Reuther, and many others−over 240 speakers in all. For this newly updated edition, Stephen J. McKenna, Assistant Professor of English at The Catholic University of America, has added 14 important speeches delivered between 1974 and 1997. These new selections include Barbara Jordan's Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee for the Nixon Impeachment Proceedings (1974); Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address (1978); Ronald Regan's First Inaugural Address (1981): Nelson Mandela's Address to a Rally in Cape Town on His Release from Prison (1990); Václav Havel's Address to a Joint Session of Congress (1990); the Earl of Spencer's Tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); and more. Rich with drama of history, the speeches in this volume will serve you time and time again by suggesting provocative themes and historical parallels, and by providing apt quotations, important reference passages, and a wide range of other valuable material. |
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... GENTLEMEN , I am undertaking a war in which I have no allies but your valor and your good will . My cause is just ; my resources are what we ourselves can do ; and the issue lies in fortune . Remember continually the glory which your ...
... GENTLEMEN , I am undertaking a war in which I have no allies but your valor and your good will . My cause is just ; my resources are what we ourselves can do ; and the issue lies in fortune . Remember continually the glory which your ...
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... Gentlemen , we have an even graver motive for cooperating with France . When , in 1859 , we invoked French aid , when the emperor consented to descend into Italy at the head of his legions , he made no secret of his pledges to the court ...
... Gentlemen , we have an even graver motive for cooperating with France . When , in 1859 , we invoked French aid , when the emperor consented to descend into Italy at the head of his legions , he made no secret of his pledges to the court ...
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... Gentlemen , I have to thank the people , Congress , and government of the United States for my liberation from captivity . Human tongue has no words to express the bliss which I felt , when I - the downtrodden Hungary's wandering chief ...
... Gentlemen , I have to thank the people , Congress , and government of the United States for my liberation from captivity . Human tongue has no words to express the bliss which I felt , when I - the downtrodden Hungary's wandering chief ...
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... gentlemen , now that sophists on all sides are declaring that if we remain a Republic we shall lack alliances outside and that we shall find no cooperation nor aid in the governments of Europe , again I say that if there be a régime , a ...
... gentlemen , now that sophists on all sides are declaring that if we remain a Republic we shall lack alliances outside and that we shall find no cooperation nor aid in the governments of Europe , again I say that if there be a régime , a ...
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... gentlemen , whether you will obey . But it is not true that I am here in your presence by the will of M. Meline . He yielded to the necessity of prosecuting me only in great trouble , in terror of the new step which the advancing truth ...
... gentlemen , whether you will obey . But it is not true that I am here in your presence by the will of M. Meline . He yielded to the necessity of prosecuting me only in great trouble , in terror of the new step which the advancing truth ...
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