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Speeches that changed the world / Simon Sebag Montefiore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Quercus, 2015Description: 224 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781623654528
LOC classification:
  • M774s 2015
Contents:
Blessed are the poor in spirit / Jesus of Nazareth -- Turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque / The prophet Mohammed -- I have the heart and stomach of a king / Queen Elizabeth I -- I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown / King Charles I -- In the name of God, go! / Oliver Cromwell -- A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils / George Washington -- We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists / Thomas Jefferson -- Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Government of the people, by the people, for the people / Abraham Lincoln -- Are women persons? / Susan B. Anthony -- I am here as a soldier / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Ireland unfree shall never be at peace / Patrick Pearse -- The world must be made safe for democracy / Woodrow Wilson -- Power to the Soviets / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- I believe in the law of love / Clarence Darrow -- I have faith in the righteousness of our cause / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ; A date which will live in infamy / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- My patience is now at an end ; I am from now on just first soldier of the Reich / Adolf Hitler -- Peace for our time / Neville Chamberlain -- It is imperative that we agree to conclude the pact / Joseph Stalin -- Blood, toil, tears, and sweat ; We shall fight on the beaches ; This was their finest hour ; Never in the field of human conflict ; An iron curtain has descended / Winston Churchill -- The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die / Charles de Gaulle -- Perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nations / Vyacheslav Molotov -- I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler / George S. Patton, Jr. -- Enduring the unendurable / Emperor Hirohito -- We are not only scientists; we are men, too / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- At the stroke of midnight hour ... India will awake / Jawaharlal Nehru -- I have just left your fighting sons in Korea / Douglas MacArthur -- The cult of the individual / Nikita Krushchev -- Ask not what your country can do for you ; Ich bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy -- I have a dream ; I've seen the promised land / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- An ideal for which I am prepared to die ; Free at last / Nelson Mandela -- You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree / Malcolm X -- Who are the kidnap victims? / Pierre Trudeau -- There can be no whitewash at the White House / Richard Nixon -- The special responsibility of the women of India / Indira Gandhi -- Hate, ignorance and evil / Chaim Herzog -- We accept to live with you in permanent peace / Anwar al-Sadat -- Our Polish freedom costs so much / Pope John Paul II -- Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! / Ronald Reagan -- Freedom of choice is a universal principle / Michail Gorbachev -- We live in a contaminated moral environment / Václav Havel -- The most hunted person of the modern age / Earl Spencer -- The perils of indifference / Elie Wiesel -- Today, our nation saw evil / George w. Bush -- Our struggle has reached a defining moment / Gerry Adams -- To the stolen generations ... I am sorry / Kevin Rudd -- America is a place where all things are possible / Barack Obama.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit / Jesus of Nazareth -- Turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque / The prophet Mohammed -- I have the heart and stomach of a king / Queen Elizabeth I -- I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown / King Charles I -- In the name of God, go! / Oliver Cromwell -- A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils / George Washington -- We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists / Thomas Jefferson -- Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Government of the people, by the people, for the people / Abraham Lincoln -- Are women persons? / Susan B. Anthony -- I am here as a soldier / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Ireland unfree shall never be at peace / Patrick Pearse -- The world must be made safe for democracy / Woodrow Wilson -- Power to the Soviets / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- I believe in the law of love / Clarence Darrow -- I have faith in the righteousness of our cause / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ; A date which will live in infamy / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- My patience is now at an end ; I am from now on just first soldier of the Reich / Adolf Hitler -- Peace for our time / Neville Chamberlain -- It is imperative that we agree to conclude the pact / Joseph Stalin -- Blood, toil, tears, and sweat ; We shall fight on the beaches ; This was their finest hour ; Never in the field of human conflict ; An iron curtain has descended / Winston Churchill -- The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die / Charles de Gaulle -- Perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nations / Vyacheslav Molotov -- I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler / George S. Patton, Jr. -- Enduring the unendurable / Emperor Hirohito -- We are not only scientists; we are men, too / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- At the stroke of midnight hour ... India will awake / Jawaharlal Nehru -- I have just left your fighting sons in Korea / Douglas MacArthur -- The cult of the individual / Nikita Krushchev -- Ask not what your country can do for you ; Ich bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy -- I have a dream ; I've seen the promised land / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- An ideal for which I am prepared to die ; Free at last / Nelson Mandela -- You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree / Malcolm X -- Who are the kidnap victims? / Pierre Trudeau -- There can be no whitewash at the White House / Richard Nixon -- The special responsibility of the women of India / Indira Gandhi -- Hate, ignorance and evil / Chaim Herzog -- We accept to live with you in permanent peace / Anwar al-Sadat -- Our Polish freedom costs so much / Pope John Paul II -- Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! / Ronald Reagan -- Freedom of choice is a universal principle / Michail Gorbachev -- We live in a contaminated moral environment / Václav Havel -- The most hunted person of the modern age / Earl Spencer -- The perils of indifference / Elie Wiesel -- Today, our nation saw evil / George w. Bush -- Our struggle has reached a defining moment / Gerry Adams -- To the stolen generations ... I am sorry / Kevin Rudd -- America is a place where all things are possible / Barack Obama.

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