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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 Oppia...

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 Advocat...

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 -- Indictm...

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...

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 Labo...

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 At...

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 Befor...

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 -- Unit...

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...

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...

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 Ba...

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 Atlant...