The World's Great Speeches Author:Lewis Copeland (Editor), Lawrence W. Lamm (Editor) Nearly 300 speeches from nearly every historical era and nation will inspire readers and provide public speakers with ideas for powerful openings, effective transitions, and impressive endings. Addresses by Socrates, Julius Caesar, St. Francis, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fulton J. Sheen, Barbara ... more »Jordan, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Earl of Spencer, and many others offer provocative themes, historic parallels, and memorable quotations.
Part I Great Speeches of Earlier Times --
I. Greece and Rome --
Pericles/ Funeral Oration --
Socrates/ On His Condemnation to Death --
Isocrates/ On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia --
Demosthenes/ On the Crown --
The Second Oration Against Philip --
Cato, the Elder/ In Support of the Oppian Law --
Hannibal/ To His Soldiers --
Cicero/ First Oration Against Catiline --
The Fourth Philippic --
Catiline/ To the Conspirators --
To His Troops --
Julius Ceasar/ On the Treatment of the Conspirators --
Cato, the Younger/ The Catilinarian Conspirators --
Mark Antony/ Oration on the Dead Body of Julius Caesar. II. The European Continent --
St. Bernard/ A Second Crusade --
St. Francis/ Sermon to the Birds --
Martin Luther/ Before the Diet of Worms --
John Calvin/ On Suffering Persecution --
Frederick the Great/ Before Invading Silesia, 1740 --
Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757 --
Desmoulins/ Advocating the Execution of Louis XVI --
Mirabeau/ Agaist the Charge of Treason --
Danton/ "To Dare again, Ever to Dare!" --
"Let France Be Free!" --
Marat/ Defense Against the Charges --
Robespierre/ The Festival of the Supreme Being --
Napoleon Bonaparte/ At the Beginning of the Italian Campaign --
On Entering Milan --
On Beginning the Russian Campaign --
Farewell to the Old Guard --
Carnot/ Against Imperialism --
Victor Hugo/ Voltaire --
Guiseppe Mazzini/ To the Young Men of Italy --
Guiseppe Garibaldi/ To His Soldiers --
Cavour/ Rome and Italy --
Louis Kossuth/ America's Welcome --
Leon Gambetta/ To the Delegates from Alsace --
Emile Zola/ Appeal for Dreyfus --
Leo XIII/ Christian Democracy --
Otto von Bismarck/ War and Armaments in Europe --
Bethmann-Hollweg/ Germany and the War --
Kaiser Wilhelm II/ Address to the German People --
Jean Jaurès/ Last Speech --
René Viviani/ The Spirit of France --
Cardinal Mercier/ Coronation Day Sermon --
Georges Clemenceau/ One Aim: Victory --
Alexander Kerensky/ To Workingmen and Soldiers --
Leon Trotzky/ To the Red Army --
Nikolai Lenin/ The Dictatorship of the Proletariat --
Marshal Ferdinand Foch/ Napoleon --
Aristide Briand/ Naval Disarmament. III. Great Britain and Ireland --
Oliver Cromwell/ On the Dissolution of Parliament --
Sir Robert Walpole/ On a Moriton for His Removal --
John Wesley/ God's Love to Fallen Man --
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham/ On the right of Taxing America --
Edmund Burke/ Conciliation with America --
Indictment of Warren Hastings --
Richard Brinsley Sheridan/ At the Trial of Warren Hastings --
William Pitt/ On His Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte --
Charles James Fox/ On Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte --
George Canning/ The Fall of Napoleon --
Thomas Babington Macaulay/ On the Reform Bill --
Richard Cobden/ The Effects of Protection on Agriculture --
John Bright/ The "Trent" Affair --
Benjamin Disraeli/ Peace with Honor --
William Ewart Glastone/ On Domestic and Foreign Affairs --
Cardinal Manning/ Anti-Semitism --
Joseph Chamberlain/ The British Empire --
Emmeline Pankhurst/ Militant Suffragists --
Sir Edward Grey/ England's Position --
David Lloyd George/ An Appeal to the Nation --
Arthur James Balfour/ The Fourth of July --
James Ramsay MacDonald/ Peace --
Lady Astor/ Women in Politics --
George Bernard Shaw/ On His Seventieth Birthday --
Daniel O'Connell/ Justice for Ireland --
Robert Emmet/ Protest Against Sentence as Traitor --
Charles Stewart Parnell/ The Home Rule Bill --
Arthur Griffith/ The Irish Free State. IV. The United States --
Jonathan Edwards/ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God --
John Hancock/ The Boston Massacre --
Patrick Henry/ "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!"--
Samuel Adams/ American Independence --
Benjamin Franklin/ On the Faults of the Constitution --
James Madison/ The States and the Federal Government --
John Marshall/ Justice and the Federal Constitution --
Alexander Hamilton/ The Federal Constitution --
George Washington/ Inaugural Address --
Farewell Address --
Thomas Jefferson/ First Inaugural Address --
Gouverneur Morris/ Alexander Hamilton --
American Indians/ Red Jacket --
Tecumseh --
Edward Everett/ Adams and Jefferson --
Daniel Webster/ Reply to Hayne --
Andrew Jackson/ Second Inaugural Address --
Wendell Phillips/ The Murder of Lovejoy --
Rufus Choate/ The Preservation of the Union --
John Caldwell Calhoun/ Slavery --
Henry Clay/ On the Compromise of 1850 --
Charles Sumner/ The Crime Against Kansas --
William Henry Seward/ The Irrepressible Conflict --
John Brown/ On being Sentenced to Death --
William Lloyd Garrison/ On the Death of John Brown --
Stephen Arnold Douglas/ Reply to Lincoln --
Jefferson Davis/ On Withdrawal from the Union --
Abraham Lincoln/ On His Nomination to the Senate --
Farewell Address at Springfield --
Address at Gettysburg --
Second Inaugural Address --
Henry Ward Beecher/ The System of Slavery --
Susan B. Anthony/ On Woman's Right to Suffrage --
Robert Green Ingersoll/ Blaine-The Plumed Knight --
Oration at His Brother's Grave --
James Gillespie Blaine/ On the Death of Garfield --
Grover Cleveland/ First Inaugural Address --
Chauncey Mitchell Depew/ The Columbian Oration --
Booker T. Washington/ The American Standard --
William Jennings Bryan/ The Cross of Gold --
Albert J. Beveridge/ The Republic That Never Retreats --
Henry Cabot Lodge/ The Retention of the Philippines --
William McKinley/ Address at Buffalo --
Robert Marion La Follette/ Manhood or Money --
Theodore Roosevelt/ The Strenuous Life --
Jane Addams/ Washington's Birthday --
Stephen S. Wise/ Lincoln, Man and American --
Woodrow Wilson/ Peace Without Victory --
Declaration of War --
The Fourteen Points --
The League of Nations --
William Edgar Borah/ The League of Nations --
Eugene Victor Debs/ On Receiving Sentence --
Elihu Root/ A Plea for the League of Nations --
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Justice)/ "Live-I Am Coming!" V. Canada --
Sir John A. MacDonald/ On Canadian Federation --
Sir Wilfrid Laurier/ Canada, England, and the United States --
Sir Robert Laird Borden/ The Voice of the Empire. VI. South America, South Africa, India, and China --
Simon Bolivar/ Address at Angostura --
Jan C. Smuts/ Peace and Empire --
Rabindranath Tagore/ Nationalism in India --
Mohandas K. Gandhi/ Non-Cooperation --
Sun Yat-Sen/ National Morale and World Tranquillity.
Part II Great Speeches of Recent Times --
VII. Domestic Affairs in the United States --
William Green/ Modern Trade Unionism --
Alfred E. Smith/ Religious Prejudice and Politics --
Fiorello H. LaGuardia/ American Labor --
Clarence S. Darrow/ A Plea for Mercy --
John L. Lewis/ The Rights of Labor --
William Allen White/ Speaking for the Consumer --
Thomas E. Dewey/ Rendezvous with Despair --
Herbert Hoover/ The Bill of Rights --
Charles Evans Hughes/ Our Government. VIII. World Affairs and the Second World War --
Anthony Eden/ A Firm Policy --
Neville Chamberlain/ The Munich Agreement --
Winston Churchill/ "Blood, Sweat and Tears" --
Dunkirk --
"Their Finest Hour" --
The War on Russia --
Address before the United States Congress --
Clement R. Attlee/ The Atlantic Charter --
W.L. MacKenzie King/ Canada and the War --
Edouard Daladier/ Nazis' Aim Is Slavery --
Paul Reynaud/ France Will Live Again! --
Henri Philippe Pétain/ "I Need Your Confidence!" --
Eamon de Valera/ Ireland Among the Nations --
Maxim Litvinov/ The League of Nations --
Haile Selassie/ The Position of Ethiopia --
Frederico Laredo Bru/ United Hemisphere Defense --
Adolf Hitler/ Germany's Claims --
No More Territorial Demands --
German Conquests --
Benito Mussolini/ A Call to Arms --
Anniversary of Italy's Entry in the War --
Vyacheslav M. Molotov/ The Nazi War on Russia --
Joseph Stalin/ "Defend Every Inch of Soviet Soil!" --
Fumimaro Konoye/ The Triple Alliance --
Chiang Kai-shek/ War Between Justice and Force --
Pius XII/ Appeal for Peace. IX. The United States and The Second World War --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt/ First Inaugural Address --
Hemisphere Defense For Democracy --
"The Arsenal of Democracy" --
Freedom of the Seas --
For a Declaration of War Against Japan --
America's Answer to Japan's Challenge --
First War Address Before Congress --
Wendell L. Willkie/ "Loyal Opposition" --
American Liberty --
Cordell Hull/ The Pillars of Enduring Peace --
James Bryant Conant/ What Are We Arming To Defend? --
Charles A. Lindbergh/ An Independent Policy --
Henry L. Stimson/ A Grave Situation --
Harold L. Ickes/ What Constitutes an American --
Frank Knox/ We Must Fight for Our Liberties --
Fulton J. Sheen/ The Cross and the Double Cross --
Dorothy Thompson/ Hitler's Plans for Canada and the United States --
Henry A. Wallace/ America's Second Chance --
Norman Thomas/ America and the War.
Part III Great Speeches Of The Modern Period --
X. United States Government --
Bernard Mannes Baruch/ Control of Atomic Weapons --
Harry S. Truman/ Inaugural Address --
Powers of the President --
Douglas MacArthur/ Old Soldiers Never Die --
Adlai Ewing Stevenson/ Acceptance of Nomination --
United States Far Eastern Policy --
Dwight David Eisenhower/ Inaugural Address --
Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy --
The Spirit of Geneva --
Earl Warren/ A Home for American Jurisprudence. XI. International Affairs and the United Nations --
Winston Churchill/ An Iron Curtain Has Descended --
Jawaharlal Nehru/ Asia Finds Herself Again --
A Glory Has Departed --
Oswaldo Aranha/ A New Order Through the United Nations --
Pierre Mendès-France/ The Search for International Cooperation --
Dag Hammarskjold/ Values of Nationalism and Internationalism --
Nickolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin/ The Lessening of International Tension --
Frank Lloyd Wright/ On Architecture --
Albert Einstein/ Peace in the Atomic Age --
William Faulkner/ Acceptance of the Nobel Prize --
Dylan Thomas/ A Visit to America --
Eleanor Roosevelt/ The United Nations as a Bridge --
J. Robert Oppenheimer/ Prospect in the Arts and Sciences --
Walter Philip Reuther/ A Historical Agreement --
Adlai Ewing Stevenson/ To the Graduating Class at Smith College.
Part IV Informal Speeches --
XII. Informal Speeches --
Ralph Waldo Emerson/ The Memory of Burns --
Charles Dickens/ English Friendship for America --
Julia Ward Howe/ A Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes --
James Russell Lowell/ After-Dinner Oratory --
Oliver Wendell Holmes/ Dorothy Q. --
Henry Morton Stanley/ Through the Dark Continent --
Henry Ward Beecher/ Merchants and Mininsters --
Chauncey Mitchell Depew/ Woman --
Joseph Hodges Choate/ The Bench and the Bar --
George Graham Vest/ A Tribute to the Dog --
Horace Porter/ Woman! --
Thomas Henry Huxley/ Science and Art --
Carl Schurz/ The Old World and the New --
William Schwenck Gilbert/ "Pinafore" --
Sir Arthur Sullivan/ Music --
Edward Everett Hale/ Boston --
Ulysses Simpson Grant/ The New Englanders --
Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain")/ New England Weather --
The Babies --
Woman, God Bless Her! --
Charles William Eliot/ Harvard and Yale --
Henry Watterson/ The Puritan and the Cavalier --
John Hay/ Omar Khayyam --
Sir Henry Irving/ The Drama --
Robert Edwin Peary/ Farthest North --
Andrew Carnegie/ General Goethals and the Panama Canal --
Lord Cecil/ Englishmen and Americans --
Sir James Matthew Barrie/ Literature and the Press --
Irvin S. Cobb/ The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South --
Will Rogers/ Wealth and Education --
William Lyon Phelps/ Owning Books --
Edward VIII/ Farewell Address --
Owen D. Young/ Culture --
John D. Rockefeller, Jr./ Our Family Creed.
Part V Important Speeches Of The Sixties --
XIII. United States --
John Fitzgerald Kennedy/ Inaugural Address --
The Strategy of Peace --
Poetry and Power --
Martin Luther King, Jr./ I Have a Dream --
Dwight David Eisenhower/ Farewell Address --
Robert S. McNamara/ War and Poverty --
Lyndon Baines Johnson/ On Vietnam and on the Decision Not to Seek Reelection --
John W. Gardner/ Uncritical Lovers, Unloving Critics --
George Wald/ A Generation in Search of a Future --
Richard Milhous Nixon/ Inaugural Address --
To the Astronauts on the Moon --
John Vliet Lindsay/ Second Inaugural Address as Mayor. XIV. World Affairs --
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev/ The Personality Cult and Its Cosequences --
Lord Snow/ Recent Thoughts on the Two Cultures --
Charles de Gaulle/ Independence for Algeria --
Pope John XXIII/ The Opening of the Ecumenical Council --
Pope Paul VI/ No More War. Supplement: Survey of Speeches By Black Americans--Compiled by Philip S. Foner --
Henry Highland Garnet/ An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America --
Frederick Douglass/ The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro --
Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln --
Booker T. Washington/ Atlanta Exposition Address --