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Preface 000 An Introductory Address 000 I. Memorials and Patriotic Speeches 000 Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons 000 Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee 000 Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness 000 Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument 000 Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day 000 Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg 000 Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July 000 President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts 000 Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists 000 Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty 000 Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Group's Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel 000 Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism 000 General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country 000 II. War and Revolution Speeches 000 Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights 000 Pope Urban II Launches the First Crusade 000 Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada 000 Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution 000 An Indian Chief Pledges Help 000 General Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection 000 Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions 000 Revolutionist Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish 000 Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against France's Enemies 000 Garibaldi Prepares Italy's Guerrillas for Battle 000 Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate 000 Chief Joseph Surrenders 000 President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress 000 Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship 000 Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia 000 Hitler Declares Germany's Intentions 000 Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task 000 *Churchill Rallies the British People after the "Miracle of Deliverance" at Dunkirk 000 Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitler's Troops 000 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan 000 General Montgomery Takes Command and Draws the Line at El Alamein 000 Senator Eugene McCarthy Crystallizes Dissent by Denouncing the War in Vietnam 000 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands 000 Israel's Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy 000 III. Tributes and Eulogies 000 Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar 000 Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette 000 Henry Lee Remembers George Washington 000 Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams 000 Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog 000 Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Bums 000 Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man 000 Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll Speaks at His Brother's Grave 000 James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield 000 Jane Addams Praises George Washington 000 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln 000 Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson 000 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Toasts a Lexicographer 000 George Bernard Shaw Salutes His Friend Albert Einstein 000 India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Delivers the Eulogy for Gandhi 000 John F. Kennedy, in Praise of Robert Frost, Celebrates the Arts in America 000 Senator Robert F. Kennedy Speaks after the Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. 000 Electronic Journalist Eric Sevareid Remembers Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun 000 Presiden Richard M. Nixon Defines "Politician" in Eulogizing Senator Everett Dirksen 000 President Jimmy Carter Salutes His Good Friend Hubert H. Humphrey 000 Senator Daniel P. Moynihan Spoofs Abstractionist Art at a Dedication Ceremony 000 *Actor-Director Orson Welles Eulogizes Another Hollywood Legend, Darryl F. Zanuck 000 Secretary Jack Kemp, Saluting Winston Churchill, Applies the Munich Analogy to Kuwait 000 President Boris Yeltsin of Russia Eulogizes Victims of Communism's Final Power Play 000 Senate Leader Robert Dole Remembers Richard Nixon as "One of Us" 000 IV. Debates and Argumentation 000 Cicero Rails against Catiline and His Conspiracies 000 *Lord General Oliver Cromwell Orders the "Rump Parliament" Out of the House 000 A Youthful William Pitt the Elder Debates the Merits of Age 000 William Pitt the Younger and Charles Fox Disagree on Napoleon's Offers of Peace 000 Senator Daniel Webster Backs the Union in His Reply to Senator Hayne 000 Senator John C. Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism of President Andrew Jackson 000 Abolitionist Charles Sumner Excoriates Two Senate Colleagues on the Issue of "Bloody Kansas" 000 Senator Stephen Douglas Differs with Lincoln on the "Popular Sovereignty" Decision on Slavery 000 John Cabell Breckinridge Disputes Colonel E. D. Baker's Charge of Treason 000 Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations 000 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Appeals to the League of Nations to Stop Aggression 000 Candidates Nixon and Kennedy Meet in the First Televised Presidential Debate 000 Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen Clash on Qualifications for the Presidency 000 V. Trials 000 Job Pleads the Record of a Good Life against God's Inexplicable Punishment 000 Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms 000 Sir Thomas More Defends Himself against Charges of Treason 000 Robert Emmet Demands That Posterity Be the Judge of His Irish Patriotism 000 Novelist Emile Zola Turns His Libel Defense into an Appeal to Free Falsely Convicted Dreyfus 000 Antiwar Dissident Eugene V. Debs Addresses the Court before Sentencing 000 Gandhi Defends His Beliefs 000 Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers a Supporter of Capital Punishment 000 Cuban Rebel Fidel Castro Defies His Captors and Predicts That History Will Absolve Him 000 Soviet Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky Defies His Judges before Sentencing 000 *Defense Attorney Johnnie Cochran Wins Acquittal for the Accused Killer O. J. Simpson 000 VI. Gallows and Farewell Speeches 000 Socrates, Condemned to Death, Addresses His Judges 000 Charles I and, Later, His Regicide Speak from the Scaffold 000 Rebel Richard Rumbold, on the Gallows, Attacks Booted and Spurred Privilege 000 Revolutionist Robespierre Delivers His Final Speech 000 President George Washington Delivers His Farewell 000 John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about His Death Sentence 000 King Edward VIII Abdicates His Throne 000 Yankee Great Lou Gehrig Bids Farewell to Baseball 000 General Douglas MacArthur Moves Congress with "Old Soldiers Never Die" 000 President Dwight D. Eisenhower Takes His Leave with a Surprising Theme 000 President Lyndon B. Johnson Halts the Bombing in Vietnam and Drops His Own Political Bomb 000 Speaker of the House James Wright Resigns as "Propitiation" for III Will 000 VII. Sermons 000 The Buddha Urges a Turning Away from Craving in His "Fire Sermon" 000 Jesus of Nazareth Delivers the Sermon on the Mount 000 Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds 000 John Wyclif Gives the Sixth Sunday Gospel after Easter 000 Religious Scourge Savonarola Demands Repentance from the Citizens of Florence 000 John Calvin Preaches on Suffering Persecution 000 Calvinist Jonathan Edwards Promises Hellfire and Damnation to the Sinful 000 Methodist John Wesley Asserts "Free Grace" to Deny the Implacability of Fate 000 Clergyman John Witherspoon Couples Religion with Politics 000 Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion 000 Bishop James Madison Speaks on Divine Providence toward America 000 Lincoln, in His Second Inaugural Seeks to Heal the Spiritual Wounds of War 000 Preacher Henry Ward Beecher Speaks of Visions 000 Evangelist Billy Sunday Preaches a Revival Sermon 000 Bishop Fulton John Sheen Makes a Wartime Plea 000 Theologian Karl Barth Preaches Deliverance by Faith 000 Rabbi Louis Finkelstein Delivers a Sermon in the White House 000 President Ronald Reagan Inveighs against the Sinfulness of Communism 000 Billy Graham Preaches about Salvation through Jesus 000 The Exiled Dalai Lama Espouses a Philosophy of Compassion 000 VIII. Inspirational Speeches 000 Chemist Louis Pasteur Praises the Rise of Scientific Education 000 Theodore Roosevelt Blasts Ignoble Ease and Advocates the Strenuous Life 000 Mark Twain Reveals Stage Fright 000 Branch Rickey Discovers the Quality That Makes a Ballplayer Great 000 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Acknowledges a Ninetieth-Birthday Tribute 000 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Sets Forth His Family's Creed 000 *General Patton Motivates the 3rd Army on the Eve of the Invasion of Europe 000 Nobel Laureate William Faulkner Charges Writers with the Duty to Help Humanity Prevail 000 President John F. Kennedy Assures West Germany of America's Steadfastness 000 Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Ennobles the Civil Rights Movement at the Lincoln Memorial 000 Senator Everett Dirksen Extols the Marigold 000 President William Jefferson Clinton Urges Memphis Churchgoers to "Make Our People Whole Again" 000 *Broadcaster Alistair Cooke Sends a Christmas "Letter from America" 000 *President George W. Bush Envisions the "Age of Liberty" 000 IX. Lectures and Instructive Speeches 000 Philosopher-Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Defines the Duties of the American Scholar 000 Edgar Allan Poe Presents His Theory of Beauty and Poetry 000 Mark Twain Stuns the Literary World by Spoofing Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes to Their Faces 000 First Female Member of Parliament, Lady Astor, Expounds on Women in Politics 000 William Lyon Phelps Praises the Owning of Books 000 Broadcaster John Hilton Talks about Talking 000 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Calls Up the Image of "the Floo Floo Bird" 000 Secretary of State Dean Acheson Explains Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union 000 Senator Henry Jackson Analyzes International Tenorism 000 Broadcaster Alistair Cooke Needles the Jargonauts in Assessing the State of the English Language 000 Presidential Aide Jack Valenti Recalls the Lessons Learned at the Center of Power 000 *After Bush v. Gore, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speaks Out for Judicial Independence 000 *Bioethicist Leon Kass Warns against the "Brave New World" of Cloning 000 X. Speeches of Social Responsibility 000 British Statesman William Pitt the Younger Urges Abolition of the Slave Trade 000 Lord Byron Puts Poetic Passion into His Defense of Labor's Rights 000 Social Reformer Maria Stewart Advocates Education for Black Women 000 Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pleads for Women's Rights 000 Evangelist Sojourner Truth Speaks for Women's Rights 000 Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery 000 Chief Seattle Cautions Americans to Deal Justly with His People 000 Susan B. Anthony Argues for Women's Rights 000 Governor Huey Long of Louisiana Proposes to End the Depression by Redistributing Wealth 000 Labor's John L. Lewis Defends His Union's Right to Strike 000 FDR Reminds the Daughters of the American Revolution about Their Lineage 000 Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort for Having Taken "the Easy Way" 000 Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch Offers America's First Plan to Control Nuclear Weapons 000 Senator Robert Taft Opposes War Crimes Trials as Ex post facto Law 000 Governor Kissin' Jim Folson of Alabama Startles the South with a Concern for the Negro 000 Senator Margaret Chase Smith Issues a "Declaration of Conscience" against Senator Joseph McCarthy 000 Malcolm X Exhorts Afro-Americans to Confront White Oppression 000 Holocaust Witness Elie Wiesel Asks President Reagan to Reconsider a Visit to a German Cemetery 000 Astronomer Carl Sagan Contemplates the Potential Self-destruction of the Earth 000 Playwright-Dissident V clav Havel Assumes the Presidency of Czechoslovakia 000 Vice-President Albert Gore Slams the Cynics and Asserts His Credo 000 Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan Argues That Male Domination of Women Offends Her Islamic Religion 000 XI. Media Speeches 000 Thomas Jefferson Returns Fire of "The Artillery of the Press" 000 Broadcaster Edward r. Murrow Despairs of the Future of TV Journalism 000 Playwright-Journalist-Diplomat Clare Boothe Luce Criticizes the American Press 000 FCC's Newton Minow Excoriates Broadcasters for Failing to Serve the Public Interest 000 Historian Daniel J. Boorstin Exmines the Coverage of Dissent 000 Vice-President Spiro Agnew Castigates the Media 000 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times Discusses Business and the Press 000 A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times Defines Freedom of the Press 000 Radio and Television Journalist Daniel Schorr, at Seventy-five, Makes a Few "Confessions" 000 Author Salman Rushdie Cries Out from a Life "Trapped inside a Metaphor" 000 *Columnist William F. Buckley, Jr., Find the Coming Senate Acquittal of President Clinton to Be "Forgiving the Unforgivable" 000 *Editor John S. Carroll Finds a Unity in the Pullitzer Prizes 000 XII. Political Speeches 000 Demosthenes Attacks His Accuser 000 John Winthrop Defines the Mission of Government Officials 000 Edmund Burke Makes a Case for Conciliation with America 000 Benjamin Franklin Addresses the Federal Convention 000 Thomas Jefferson Appeals for Unity at His Inauguration 000 Historian-Legislator Thomas Macauley Calls on Parliament to Lift the Political Restrictions on the Jews 000 William Cobbett Heaps Scorn on Opponents of His Bill to Reduce Child Labor 000 Senator Henry Clay Calls for the Great Compromise to Avert Civil War 000 Karl Marx Calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 000 Lincoln, in His First Inaugural Asserts the Necessity of Majority Rule 000 Representative J. Proctor Knott Uses Satire to Sink a Land Grant Bill 000 British Benjamin Disraeli Speaks Up for Tory Principles 000 Kalakaua, Last King of Hawaii, Assumes the Throne 000 Prime Minister Gladstone Argues for Toleration and the Rights of Freethinkers in the House of Commons 000 Democratic Candidate William Jennings Bryan Delivers His "Cross of Gold" Speech 000 *"Bull Moose" Candidate Theodore Roosevelt Gives the "Speech That Saved His Life" 000 Claude Bowers Conjures the Ghosts of Democrats Past to Keynote a Convention 000 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Instills Confidence in a Depression-Racked Nation 000 Winston Churchill Warns the West of the Soviet "Iron Curtain" 000 Judge Noah Sweat of Mississippi Shows How to Straddle a Fence with Satiric Flair 000 Hubert H. Humphrey Divides the Democratic Party on the Urgent Issue of Civil Rights 000 President Harry Truman Whistle-stops the Nation, Blasting the "Do-Nothing" Congress 000 Adlai Stevenson Makes the Model of a Concession Speech 000 Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a "Secret Speech," Tears Down Stalin's Reputation 000 President John F. Kennedy, in His Inaugural Takes Up the Torch for a New Generation 000 President Charles de Gaulle Offers Self-determination to the Algerian People 000 Barry Goldwater Ignites the Conservative Movement 000 President Richard M. Nixon Rallies "the Silent Majority" to Support the War in Vietnam 000 Representative Barbara Jordan Makes the Constitutional Case for the Impeachment of Nixon 000 President Gerald Ford Takes Office after Nixon's Resignation 000 Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat Travels to Jerusalem to Address Israel's Knesset 000 Senator Edward M. Kennedy Exhorts Fellow Democrats to Hold Fast to Liberalism 000 President Ronald Reagan Foresees the Crisis of Communism 000 Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick Blasts the "San Francisco Democrats" 000 Labour's Neil Kinnock Excoriates Mrs. Thatcher's Toryism 000 Henry Kissinger Warns against the Reemergence of Isolationism 000 George H. W. Bush Accepts the Republican Nomination 000 President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His-Fault 000 Commentator Patrick J. Buchanan Brings a Note of Populism to the GOP 000 *British Prime Minister Tony Blair Exhorts His Party to Fight Terrorism 000 XIII. Commencement Speeches 000 President Woodrow Wilson Calls the Midshipmen to Their Duty 000 Editor William Allen White Calls the Prewar Generation to Its Duty 000 Economist Arthur Bums Shares Three Discoveries with Young Israelis 000 Humorist Art Buchwald Speaks to Law Graduates 000 Language Maven William Safire Denounces the Telephone as the Subverter of Good English 000 Financier Felix G. Rohatyn Examines a Fragile Economy 000 Governor Mario Cuomo Speaks over the Heads of the Graduates to the Parents 000 Labor's Lane Kirkland Rejects the Labels "Liberal" and "Conservative" 000 Professor Jacob Neusner Defines the Social Contract between Teacher and Student 000 General Colin Powell Urges African-American Students to Reject Racial Hatred 000 Brain-Science Philanthropist David J. Mahoney Envisions Active Lives Lived to One Hundred Years 000 *XIV. Undelivered Speeches 000 *President John F. Kennedy's Prepared Remarks at Dallas on November 22, 1963 000 *President Clinton Rejects a Contrite Speech Draft and Elects to "Move On" 000 * President Nixon's Prepared Text in case the Apollo XI Moon Landing Ended in Tragedy 000 Permissions 000 Index 000
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