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Speeches that changed the world :
the stories and transcripts of the moments that made history /
with an introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
London :
Quercus Pub.,
2007.
224 pages :
illustrations ;
27 cm +
1 audio disc (80 min. ; 4 3/4 in.)
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Includes index.
Originally published: 2005.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me / Moses -- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven / Jesus of Nazareth -- Turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque / Mohammed -- My little sisters, the birds, much bounden are ye unto God / St Francis of Assisi -- 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 -- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation / Abraham Lincoln -- I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle / Emmeline Pankhurst -- The scientific history of radium is beautiful / Marie Curie -- There is no salvation for India / Mohandas Gandhi -- Power to the Soviets / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- The world must be made safe for democracy / Woodrow Wilson -- I believe in the law of love / Clarence Darrow -- Peace for our time / Neville Chamberlain -- My patience is now at an end / Adolf Hitler -- It is essential that the war continue for as long as possible / Joseph Stalin -- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat / Winston Churchill -- This was their finest hour / Winston Churchill -- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few / Winston Churchill -- Perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nations / Vyacheslav Molotov -- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die / Charles de Gaulle -- I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler / George S. Patton Jr -- The enemy has begun to deploy a new and most cruel bomb / Emperor Hirohito -- At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom / Jawaharlal Nehru -- Speech on the granting of independence / Jawaharlal Nehru -- The reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- I have just left your fighting sons in Korea ... They are splendid in every way / Douglas MacArthur -- I am the first accused / Nelson Mandela -- Free at last / Nelson Mandela -- These were all good men / Eamon de Valera -- Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country / John F. Kennedy -- Ich bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr -- I've seen the promised land / Martin Luther King Jr -- You can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree / Malcolm X -- I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black / Shirley Chisolm -- Who are the kidnap victims? / Pierre Trudeau -- Stop the killing / Golda Meir -- There can be no whitewash at the White House / Richard M. Nixon -- Women's education is almost more important than the education of boys and men / Indira Gandhi -- Hate, ignorance and evil / Chaim Herzog -- Love begins at home / Mother Teresa -- Our Polish freedom costs so much / Pope John Paul II -- Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! / Ronald Reagan -- Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions / Mikhail Gorbachev -- The time for negotiation has arrived / F.W. de Klerk -- We live in a contaminated moral environment / Vaclav Havel -- The perils of indifference / Elie Wiesel -- A great people has been moved to defend a great nation / George W. Bush.
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Speeches, addresses, etc.
Sebag Montefiore, Simon,
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