Speeches that changed the world / with an introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore.


New York : Quercus, [2015];©2010.
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Notes:

  • Includes index.
  • 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 /

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