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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... thing their valor could do for it , and so made it the most glorious present . Bestowing thus their lives on the public ... things we have never yet experienced , but from the loss of those to which we have been accustomed . They who are ...
... thing their valor could do for it , and so made it the most glorious present . Bestowing thus their lives on the public ... things we have never yet experienced , but from the loss of those to which we have been accustomed . They who are ...
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... things to you as would have been most agreeable for you to hear , had I lamented and bewailed and done and said many other things unworthy of me , as I affirm , but such as you are accustomed to hear from others . But neither did I then ...
... things to you as would have been most agreeable for you to hear , had I lamented and bewailed and done and said many other things unworthy of me , as I affirm , but such as you are accustomed to hear from others . But neither did I then ...
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... thing has happened . For the wonted prophetic voice of my guardian deity , on every former occasion , even in the most ... things : for either the dead may be annihilated and have no sensation of anything whatever ; or , as it is said ...
... thing has happened . For the wonted prophetic voice of my guardian deity , on every former occasion , even in the most ... things : for either the dead may be annihilated and have no sensation of anything whatever ; or , as it is said ...
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... things , when the subsequent expedition took place , which Xerxes led in person , after abandoning his palace and undertaking to become a general , and having collected all the men from Asia ; and who , being anxious not to speak in ...
... things , when the subsequent expedition took place , which Xerxes led in person , after abandoning his palace and undertaking to become a general , and having collected all the men from Asia ; and who , being anxious not to speak in ...
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... things we take no thought , but we are disputing about the islands of the Cyclades , and thus heedlessly have we surrendered to the foreign foe cities so many in number and so great in magnitude . Therefore , he is in possession of some ...
... things we take no thought , but we are disputing about the islands of the Cyclades , and thus heedlessly have we surrendered to the foreign foe cities so many in number and so great in magnitude . Therefore , he is in possession of some ...
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