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245 _aSpeeches that changed the world /
_cEdited by Mark Hawkins Dady ; introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore
250 _aRev ed.
260 _aLondon, UK :
_bQuercus Editions Ltd,
_cc2010.
300 _a224 p. ;
_billus. ; hbk ;
_c28 cm.
500 _aPrevious ed.: 2005.
501 _aIncludes index.
505 _aIntroduction -- Jesus of Nazareth: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' -- The Prophet Mohammed: 'Turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque' -- Queen Elizabeth I: 'I have the heart of the stomach of a king' -- King Charles I: 'I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown' -- Oliver Cromwell: 'In the name of God, go!' -- George Washington: 'A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils' -- Thomas Jefferson: 'We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists' -- Napoleon Bonaparte: 'Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell' -- Lincoln: 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people' -- Susan B. Anthony: 'Are women persons?' -- Emmeline Pankhurst: 'I am here as a soldier' -- Patrick Pearse: 'Ireland unfree shall never be at peace' -- Woodrow Wilson: 'The world must be made safe for democracy' -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: 'Power to the Soviets' -- Clarence Darrow: 'I believe in the law of love' -- Mohandas K. Gandhi: 'I have faith in the righteousness of our cause' -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'; 'A date which will live in infamy' -- Adolf Hitler: 'My patience is now at an end'; 'I am from now on just first soldier of the Reich' -- Neville Chamberlain: 'Peace for our time' -- Joseph Stalin: 'It is imperative that we agree to conclude the pact' -- Winston Churchill: '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' -- Charles de Gaulle: 'The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die' -- Vyacheslav Molotov: 'Perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nation' -- George S. Patton, Jr: 'I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler' -- Emperor Hirohito: 'Enduring the unendurable' -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: 'We are not only scientists; we are men, too' -- Jawaharlal Nehru: 'At the stroke of the midnight hour... India will awake' -- Douglas MacArthur: 'I have just left your fighting sons in Korea' -- Nikita Khrushchev: 'The cult of the individual' -- John F. Kennedy: 'Ask not what your country can do for you'; 'Ich bin ein Berliner' -- Martin Luther King, Jr: 'I have a dream'; 'I've seen the promised land' -- Nelson Mandela: 'An ideal for which I am prepared to die'; 'Free at last' -- Malcolm X: 'You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree' -- Pierre Trudeau: 'Who are the kidnap victims?' -- Richard Nixon: 'There can be no whitewash at the White House' -- Gandhi: 'The special responsibility of the women of India' -- Chaim Herzog: 'Hate, ignorance and evil' -- Anwar al-Sadat: 'We accept to live with you in permanent peace' -- Pope John Paul II: 'Our Polish freedom costs so much' -- Ronald Reagan: 'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' -- Mikhail Gorbachev: 'Freedom of choice is a universal principle' -- Vaclav Havel: 'We live in a contaminated moral environment' -- Earl Spencer: 'The most hunted person of the modern age' -- Elie Wiesel: 'The perils of indifference' -- George W. Bush: 'Today, our nation saw evil' -- Gerry Adams: 'Our struggle has reached a defining moment' -- Kevin Rudd: 'To the stolen generations... I am sorry' -- Barack Obama: 'America is a place where all things are possible' -- Index of speakers and key lines.
521 _aDVD Rated E. Educational : exempt from classification.
650 _aSpeeches, addresses, etc.
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