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I have a dream: inspiring words and thoughts from history's greatest leaders
2011, Quercus, Quercus Publishing
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0857386204 9780857386205
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Gettysburg was immortal / Charles Francis Adams
Freedom, independence, peace
Man, therefore, was not made for himself alone
Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice / John Quincy Adams
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested / Samuel Adams
Against crowning Demosthenes (against Ctesiphon) / Aeschines
It is the moment for action / King Albert I of Belgium
The meaning of crucifixion / St. Albertus Magnus
To his mutinous troops / Alexander the Great
Long live Chile! / Dr Salvador Isabelino Allende
What is patriotism? / Fisher Ames
Give us the truth! / Ross C. Anderson
The sea of life / St Anselm of Canterbury
Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote? / Susan Brownell Anthony
The lessons of the past will not be forgotten / Alexander Aris
All hearts are filled with grief and horror / Chester Alan Arthur
...this war has been forced upon us / Herbert Henry Asquith
When Adam delved and Eve span / John Ball
It is not enough that one should desire to be free / Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave
The torments of hell / The Venerable Bede
...cast down but not destroyed / Henry Ward Beecher
To speak in this place of horror / Pope Benedict XVI
Why another crusade? / St. Bernard of Clairvaux
It will take us very many years to live down what we have done / Aneurin Bevan
Women become the victims of a culture of exclusion and male dominance / Benazir Bhutto
Iron and blood
We Germans fear God and nothing else in the world! / Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismark
My warriors fell around me / Black Hawk.
...The triple yoke of ignorance, tyranny and vice / Simón Bolívar
Here is a man who led us through all hazards / Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
On this spot we must either conquer, or die with glory / Boudica
The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land / John Bright
This is your time. Their time is done / Herbert Paul Brooks
Our whole punishments smell of blood / Henry Brougham
...mingle my blood further with the blood of my children / John Brown
Cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan
Are they now, do you think, better men than they were? / Chief Buckongahelas of the Lenape
American's are asking, "Who attacked our country?" / George W. Bush
Mr. Hastings has no refuge here
Slavery they can have anywhere / Edmund Burke
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? / George Gordon Byron
There was a time when there was no earth, no sun, no moon, no stars / Daniel William Cahill
They make a solitude and call it peace / Calgacus
Enduring persecution for Christ / John Calvin
I am well aware, soldiers, that words cannot inspire courage / Catiline
Rome should be the capital of Italy / Count of Cavour
I had to try / César Estrada Chávez
...an iron curtain has descended across the continent
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
This was our finest hour
We shall fight on the beaches / Sir Winston Churchill
The first oration against Verres / Marcus Cicero
...Let us determine to meet the call of patriotic duty in every time of our country's danger or need / Stephen Grover Cleveland
Acres of diamonds / Russell Herman Conwell
Let my head, carried through Paris, be a rallying sign for all the friends of law / Charlotte Corday
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?
Let God be judge between you and me! / Oliver Cromwell
Nazis' aim is slavery / Édouard Daladier
We must dare, dare again, always dare / Georges Jacques Danton
I have spoken about the war / Clarence Seward Darrow
At the Belfast encampment, Maine
On withdrawing from the Union / Jefferson Finis Davis
The oration on the crown
The second oration against Philip
The third oration against Philip / Demosthenes
It is I who call my brothers to liberty! / Camille Desmoulins
Amid the obstructions and the cynicism of the materialistic age he never lost his hold on the "ideal" / John Dillon
Assassination has never changed the history of the world... / Benjamin Disraeli
...did John Brown fail?
What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass
Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards
The tide has turned / General Dwight D. Eisenhower
The exchequer...is empty...the jewels pawned / Sir John Eliot
I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too
My heart was never set on any worldly goods / Queen Elizabeth I
Let no man write my epitaph / Robert Emmet
The jubilee of America is turned into mourning / Edward Everett
When will I be blown up? / William Faulkner.
A whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher
...a war that is finished / Gerald Ford
For the birds / St. Francis of Assisi
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults / Benjamin Franklin
...shortly we have either beaten the enemy, or we never see one another again / King Frederick II
...mentally ill people in Germany have been deliberately killed and more will be killed in the future / Blessed Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen
I believe that in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic struggle for freedom than ours
Non-violence is the first article of my faith / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death
This people is its own master / Giuseppe Garibaldi
On the death of John Brown / William Lloyd Garrison
I believe in America / Elizabeth Glaser
Now, people rise up and let the storm break loose! / Paul Joseph Goebbels
Remember the rights of the savage / William Ewart Gladstone
Death with honour is preferable to life with ignominy / Gnaeus Julius Agricola
Kill them, kill them in abundance, until they have had enough / Henri Joseph Eugene Gouraud
It was the act of a coward, who raises his arm to strike, but has not courage to give the blow / Henry Grattan
The loss of liberty, to a generous mind, is worse than death / Andrew Hamilton
Address to his soldiers before the Battle of Ticinus
Encouraging his soldiers to cross The Alps / Hannibal Barca
I believe that patriotism has been blown into a higher and holier flame in many hearts / Benjamin Harrison
We live in a contaminated moral environment / Václav Havel
Give me liberty or give me death! / Patrick Henry.
In September 1939 I assured you that neither force of arms nor time would overcome Germany
My patience now is at an end!
Word and bread! / Adolf Hitler
...if there is a culprit here, it is not my own son,
it is I! / Victor-Marie Hugo
What is an American? / Harold Leclair Ickes
He is the gentlest memory of our world / Robert Green Ingersoll
Panegyricus
on the Union of Greece to resist Persia / Isocrates
I advance with obedience to the work / Thomas Jefferson
The eight beatitudes
The sermon on the Mount / Jesus of Nazareth
In this place of memories, the mind and heart and soul feel an extreme need for silence / Pope John Paul II
The American promise / Lyndon Baines Johnson
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever
Words do not pay for my dead people / Chief Joseph
...the cause endures / Edward Moore Kennedy
Artists are not engineers of the soul
Ask not what your country can do for you
Ich bin ein Berliner
We choose to go to the Moon / John Fitzgerald Kennedy
...it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in / Robert Francis Kennedy
They died, but they were never slaves / Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky
We must abolish the cult of the individual once and for all / Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
I have a dream
I have been to the mountaintop / Martin Luther King
For the power of the people!
Long live the world socialist revolution! / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Mr. Speaker, did you know I am a military hero?
The Gettysburg address
With malice toward none, with charity to all / Abraham Lincoln
A dark day for humanity
Germany expected to find a lamb and found a lion
I am certain that the nation will shrink from no sacrifice
The nation is prepared for every sacrifice so long as it has leadership
Today we wage the most devastating war earth has ever seen / David Lloyd George
Logan's lament / Chief Logan of the Mingo
Every man a king / Huey Pierce Long
We are going to rule not by the peace of guns and bayonets but by a peace of heart and the will / Patrice Émery Lumumba
I neither can nor will retract anything / Martin Luther
Duty, honor, country / Douglas MacArthur
The wind of change / Maurice Harold Macmillan
The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X
It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die
Let there be justice for all!
No easy walk to freedom / Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
In his own defence / Jean-Paul Marat
Oration over the dead body of Caesar / Mark Anthony
What must be done? / George Catlett Marshall
I am too moved to speak / Tomás Garrigue Masaryk
Of a malignant tongue / Jean Baptiste Massillon
This war has been forced upon us / Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov
The ten commandments / Moses
Do not regret my fate
The French people, free and respected by the whole world, shall give to Europe a glorious peace
Your country has a right to expect of you great things / Napoléon Bonaparte
The light has gone out of our lives / Jawarharlal Nehru
First they came for the communists / Pastor Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... / Brigadier-General John Nixon.
Yes we can! / Barack Hussein Obama
Equal justice for Ireland / Daniel O'Connell
There are women lying at death's door... / Emmeline Pankhurst
Americans love a winner / General George Smith Patton
Through a glass, darkly
To an unknown God / Paul the Apostle
Funeral oration, on those who died in the war
Third oration
In defence of himself / Pericles
You came to the battlefield at a crucial hour / General John Joseph Pershing
If we must fall, let us fall like men
The kingdom is undone!
...you can not conquer America / William Pitt
Europe is not to be saved by any single man
It was conceived in injustice / William Pitt
Lafayette is dead! / Seargent Smith Prentiss
Tremble all ye oppressors of the world! / Richard Price
To his army before the Battle of Ticinus / Publius Cornelius Scipio
To his mutinous troops / Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
The cry of all England / John Pym
I thank my God heartily that He hath brought me into the light to die / Sir Walter Raleigh
I fear no man, for I am a Creek warrior / Chief Red Eagle
We gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return / Red Jacket
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave / Ronald Wilson Reagan
Death is the commencement of immortality!
Our blood flows for the cause of humanity
Terror is nothing else than swift, severe, indomitable justice / Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
Froth with terrifying power over people's lives / Anita Roddick.
A date which will live in infamy
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
We are now in this war / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours
...not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt
The problem of peace / Albert Schweitzer
Do not imagine that those whom thou conquerest can love thee / Scythian Ambassador
On the disabilities of the Jews
On the Irish as "aliens" / Richard Lalor Sheil
The secret beyond science / Goldwin Smith
In his own defence
On being condemned to death
On being declared guilty / Socrates
What is the joy about? / Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
A standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden / Charles Edward Maurice Spencer
The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a just war / Joseph Stalin
The cornerstone speech / Alexander Hamilton Stephens
In the name of the Indian chiefs and warriors
My forefathers were warriors / Chief Tecumseh
Smile at each other / Mother Teresa
...our people are sacrificed on the altar of prejudice in the capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell
...it is no great effort, at this day, to add the sacrifice of my life / Theobald Wolf Tone
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action
Harry S. Truman
Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth
We are without reproach / Jean Raphaël Adrien René Viviani
One-third of the population of the south is of the negro race / Booker Taliaferro Washington.
I retire from the great theater of action
Preventing the revolt of his officers
The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us / George Washington
An American no longer?
It was sealed in blood
Second reply to Hayne / Daniel Webster
Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred / Eliezer Wiesel
How can we bear to think of such a scene as this? / William Wilberforce
The hour is grave / Kaiser Wilhelm II
This I know: a successful resistance is a revolution, not a rebellion! / John Wilkes
...there is nothing new under the sun / Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
If you will not contend for glory, you must fight for life / King William I
It is a war against all nations / Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die / General James Wolfe
And thus speaketh holy writ and no man can disprove it / John Wycliffe
I swear that Dreyfus is innocent / Émile François Zola.
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