Great Speeches

Words that Shaped the World

John Boyes

• Publisher: Arcturus
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781784042219
• eBook ISBN:
  9781848581371
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Great Speeches collects over forty of the most powerful and stirring addresses delivered in the English language.

It captures the significant historical events of the past 400 years in the words of their participants, from those speeches given in times of war and sorrow, such as Winston Churchill's 'This Was Their Finest Hour', to those delivered at moments of hope, such as Barack Obama's election victory address.
Other speeches include:
• Charles I - Statement at the Trial of Charles Stuart, King of England
• Susan B. Anthony - On a Woman's Right to Vote
• John F. Kennedy - 'Ich bin ein Berliner'
• Nelson Mandela - Inaugural Address

Arranged in chronological order for easy reference, each speech is prefaced by an introduction and illustrated with an image of the speaker.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Introduction
• Elizabeth I – The Golden Speech
• Charles I – Statement at the Trial of Charles Stuart, King of England
• James Wolfe – Speech Before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
• Patrick Henry – ‘Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!’
• Tecumseh – ‘Sell a Country! Why Not Sell the Air, the Clouds, and the Great Sea?’
• Sojourner Truth – ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’
• Frederick Douglass – ‘What, to the Slave, is Your Fourth of July?’
• Abraham Lincoln – The Gettysburg Address
• Susan B. Anthony – On aWoman’s Right to Vote
• Emmeline Pankhurst – In Support of the Women’s Enfranchisement Bill
• Patrick Pearse – ‘Ireland Unfree Shall Never be at Peace’
• David Lloyd George – On the Cause of the Great War
• Woodrow Wilson – The Fourteen Points
• Mohandas Gandhi – Statement at the Great Trial
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt – First Inaugural Address
• Edward VIII – Abdication Speech.
• David Lloyd George – ‘The Prime Minister Should Give an Example of Sacrifice’.
• Winston Churchill – ‘Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat’
• Winston Churchill – ‘This Was Their Finest Hour’
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Address to Congress After the Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Winston Churchill – ‘The Iron Curtain’
• Jawaharlal Nehru – ‘A Tryst with Destiny’.
• Eleanor Roosevelt – On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Albert Einstein – Peace in the Atomic Age
• Harold Macmillan – ‘The Wind of Change’.
• John F. Kennedy – Inaugural Address
• John F. Kennedy – ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’
• Martin Luther King, Jr – ‘I Have a Dream’
• Martin Luther King, Jr – ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’
• Robert F. Kennedy – On the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
• Richard Nixon – Resignation Speech
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau – Against Capital Punishment
• Margaret Thatcher – ‘The Lady’s not for Turning’
• Ronald Reagan – ‘Tear Down this Wall’
• Nelson Mandela – Inaugural Address
• Pope John Paul II – Speech at Yad Vashem
• George W. Bush – Address to Congress Following the Attacks of 9/11.
• Al Gore – After Hurricane Katrina
• Kevin Rudd – Apology to Aboriginal Peoples
• Barack Obama – ‘A More Perfect Union’
• Barack Obama – Election Victory Speech
• Biographies
• Bibliography
• Copyright