The Penguin book of twentieth-century speeches

 Content: 'The doctrine of the strenuous life' (1899) / Theodore Roosevelt 1 --
 'Methods of barbarism' (1901) / Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 4 --
 'Socialism' (1901) / Keir Hardie 6 --
 'I believe in a British Empire and I do not believe in a Little England' (1903) / Joseph Chamberlain 9 --
 'I warn the Government' (1906) / F.E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead 13 --
 'The men with the muck-rakes' (1906) / Theodore Roosevelt 18 --
 'The plight of women' (1908) / Emmeline Pankhurst 20 --
 'The People's Budget' (1909) / David Lloyd George 23 --
 'We are in for rough weather' (1909) / David Lloyd George 28 --
 'The new nationalism' (1910) / Theodore Roosevelt 30 --
 'Freedom or death' (1913) / Emmeline Pankhurst 33 --
 'Ulster is asking to be let alone' (1914) / Edward Carson 37 --
 'The great pinnacle of sacrifice' (1914) / David Lloyd George 39 --
 'Ireland unfree shall never be at peace' (1915) / Patrick Pearse 45 --
 'There is no salvation for India' (1916) / Mahatma Gandhi 47 --
 'Ireland summons her children to the flag' (1916) / Proclamation of the Irish Republic 50 --
 'In Ireland alone, in this twentieth century, is loyalty held to be a crime' (1916) / Roger Casement 52 --
 'The world must be made safe for democracy' (1917) / Woodrow Wilson 59 --
 'A new phase in the history of Russia begins' (1917) / V.I. Lenin 62 --
 'The dustbin of history' (1917) / Leon Trotsky 65 --
 'We need an army' (1918) / Leon Trotsky 66 --
 'While there is a lower class, I am in it' (1918) / Eugene V. Debs 69 --
 'A fit country for heroes to live in' (1918) / David Lloyd George 72 --
 'American I was born' (1919) / Henry Cabot Lodge 75 --
 'Man will see the truth' (1919) / Woodrow Wilson 78 --
 'A man as low and mean as I can picture' (1919) / Alfred E. Smith 81 --
 'The eyes of the whole Empire are on Ireland today' (1921) / George V 83 --
 'Non-violence is the first article of my faith' (1922) / Mahatma Gandhi 85 --
 'A message to every land where the Jewish race is scattered' (1922) / A.J. Balfour 91 --
 'The sounds of England' (1924) / Stanley Baldwin 94 --
 'The life of the Negro race has been a life of tragedy' (1926) / Clarence Darrow 96 --
 'I am never be guilty, never' (1927) / Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti 100 --
 'Rugged individualism' (1928) / Herbert Hoover 103 --
 'The nation has to be mobilized' (1930) / Oswald Mosley 106 --
 'We are not on trial' (1930) / Ramsay MacDonald 109 --
 'Either we do it--or they crush us' (1931) / Joseph Stalin 112 --
 'Bolshevism run mad' (1931) / Philip Snowden 114 --
 'An indomitable aggressive spirit' (1932) / Adolf Hitler 116 --
 'The bomber will always get through' (1932) / Stanley Baldwin 124 --
 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' (1933) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt 128 --
 'The supreme justiciar of the German people' (1934) / Adolf Hitler 133 --
 'England again dares to be great' (1935) / Oswald Mosley 136 --
 'They shall not pass' (1936) / La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibarruri) 137 --
 'The forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match' (1936) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt 139 --
 'The locust years' (1936) / Winston Churchill 141 --
 'I shall always trust the instincts of our democratic people' (1936) / Stanley Baldwin 143 --
 'The Jews carry Palestine in their hearts' (1936) / Chaim Weizmann 146 --
 'I have determined to renounce the Throne' (1936) / Edward VIII 153 --
 'The House today is a theatre which is being watched by the whole world' (1936) / Stanley Baldwin 155 --
 'God Save the King' (1936) / Edward VIII 158 --
 'I stake my life' (1937) / Leon Trotsky 160 --
 'The oppression is growing' (1937) / Martin Niemoller 164 --
 'My patience is now at an end' (1938) / Adolf Hitler 166 --
 'Peace for our time' (1938) / Neville Chamberlain 170 --
 'My bead erect' (1938) / Duff Cooper 171 --
 'A total and unmitigated defeat' (1938) / Winston Churchill 172 --
 'Is this an attempt to dominate the world by force?' (1939) / Neville Chamberlain 175 --
 'This country is at war with Germany' (1939) / Neville Chamberlain 179 --
 'In the name of God, go' (1940) / Leo Amery 181 --
 'Sacrifice the seals of office' (1940) / David Lloyd George 184 --
 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat' (1940) / Winston Churchill 187 --
 'Be ye men of valour' (1940) / Winston Churchill 188 --
 'This was their finest hour' (1940) / Winston Churchill 190 --
 'The flame of French resistance' (1940) / Charles de Gaulle 191 --
 'This little steamer' (1940) / J.B. Priestley 194 --
 'The arsenal of democracy' (1940) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt 196 --
 'The four freedoms' (1941) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt 199 --
 'A grave danger hangs over our country' (1941) / Joseph Stalin 203 --
 'A date which will live in infamy' (1941) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt 206 --
 'The final solution' (1942) / Reinhard Heydrich 208 --
 'We will stand and fight here' (1942) / General Bernard Montgomery 211 --
 'Give me your children' (1942) / Chaim Rumkowski 214 --
 'The vision of such an Ireland' (1943) / Eamon de Valera 218 --
 'That son of a bitch Patton again' (1943-4) / General George Patton 221 --
 'Obliteration is not a justifiable act of war' (1944) / Bishop George Bell 223 --
 'Our deep moral dependence' (1945) / J. Robert Oppenheimer 227 --
 The 'iron curtain' (1946) / Winston Churchill 231 --
 'A choice between the quick and the dead' (1946) / Bernard Baruch 234 --
 'The noble mansion of free India' (1947) / Jawaharlal Nehru 237 --
 'The light has gone out of our lives' (1948) / Jawaharlal Nehru 241 --
 'I have in my hand ... ' (1950) / Joseph McCarthy 243 --
 'The agony and the sweat' (1950) / William Faulkner 246 --
 'There is only one hope for mankind' (1951) / Aneurin Bevan 248 --
 'Let's talk sense to the American people' (1952) / Adlai Stevenson 251 --
 'The motion of destiny' (1953) / Kwame Nkrumah 253 --
 'History will absolve me' (1953) / Fidel Castro 257 --
 'Shall we choose death?' (1954) / Bertrand Russell 262 --
 'There comes a time when people get tired' (1955) / Martin Luther King 265 --
 'We must abolish the cult of the individual' (1956) / Nikita Khrushchev 267 --
 'We have to act up to different standards' (1956) / Aneurin Bevan 274 --
 'Naked into the conference chamber' (1957) / Aneurin Bevan 277 --
 'Hola Camp' (1959) / Enoch Powell 279 --
 'An ugly society, a rulgar society, a meretricious society' (1959) / Aneurin Bevan 282 --
 'The wind of change' (1960) / Harold Macmillan 286 --
 'Do not reject this man' (1960) / Eugene McCarthy 291 --
 'A new frontier' (1960) / John F. Kennedy 294 --
 'The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans' (1961) / John F. Kennedy 297 --
 'That man was Eichmann' (1961) / Gideon Hausner 301 --
 'We will fight, fight and fight again' (1961) / Hugh Gaitskell 308 --
 'The brotherhood of man' (1961) / Iain Macleod 310 --
 'Duty--Honor--Country' (1962) / Douglas MacArthur 313 --
 'The end of a thousand years of history' (1962) / Hugh Gaitskell 319 --
 'Ich bin ein Berliner' (1963) / John F. Kennedy 322 --
 'Never glad confident morning again' (1963) / Nigel Birch 324 --
 'I have a dream' (1963) / Martin Luther King 327 --
 'The white heat of technology' (1963) / Harold Wilson 332 --
 'Let us continue' (1963) / Lyndon B. Johnson 334 --
 'An ideal for which I am prepared to die' (1964) / Nelson Mandela 337 --
 'The Great Society' (1964) / Lyndon B. Johnson 344 --
 'Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice' (1964) / Barry Goldwater 347 --
 'A time for choosing' (1964) / Ronald Reagan 350 --
 'More African than American' (1965) / Malcolm X 353 --
 'We shall overcome' (1965) / Lyndon B. Johnson 357 --
 'This is the goal' (1966) / Roy Jenkins 362 --
 'A tiny ripple of hope' (1966) / Robert Kennedy 366 --
 'The decent opinion of mankind' (1967) / Eugene McCarthy 372 --
 'We will be free' (1968) / Melina Mercouri 376 --
 'I shall not seek nor will I accept nomination as your president' (1968) / Lyndon B. Johnson 380 --
 'I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood"' (1968) / Enoch Powell 383 --
 'The time has come for an honest government' (1968) / Richard Nixon 392 --
 'A woman's civil right' (1969) / Betty Friedan 396 --
 'Millions will rejoice' (1971) / Edward Heath 400 --
 'Au revoir' (1974) / Richard Nixon 403 --
 'Our human stock is threatened' (1974) / Sir Keith Joseph 405 --
 'Let me give you my vision' (1975) / Margaret Thatcher 409 --
 'I late, ignorance and evil' (1975) / Chaim Herzog 413 --
 'The red flame of Socialist courage' (1976) / Michael Foot 418 --
 'What is the joy about?' (1978) / Alexander Solzhenitsyn 421 --
 'Home Thoughts from Abroad' (1979) / Roy Jenkins 424 --
 'The dream shall never die' (1980) / Edward Kennedy 429 --
 'We are reaping the whirlwind of all our yesterdays' (1981) / Michael Heseltine 431 --
 'The Falklands Factor' (1982) / Margaret Thatcher 434 --
 'Our neighbours are indeed like us' (1982) / Robert Runcie 436 --
 'I warn you' (1983) / Neil Kinnock 439 --
 'We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing' (1983) / Pope John Paul II 441 --
 'The great she-elephant, she who must be obeyed' (1984) / Denis Healey 444 --
 'A monstrous carbuncle' (1984) / Prince Charles 446 --
 'Let us make a vow to the dead' (1984) / Ronald Reagan 449 --
 'You can't play politics with people's jobs' (1985) / Neil Kinnock 451 --
 'The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted' (1986) / Ronald Reagan 454 --
 'Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?' (1987) / Neil Kinnock 456 --
 'Now is the time' (1988) / Edward Kennedy 459.
 Abstract:             This is a general anthology of speeches. They range from the Sermon on the Mount to Kennedy's Ask not what speech, from the Gettysburg Address to Winston Churchill's war speeches, and from Adolf Hitler to Martin Luther