Funeral oration / Pericles -- On his condemnation to death / Socrates -- On the union of Greece to resist Persia / Isocrates -- On the crown / Demonsthenes -- The second oration against Philip / Demosthenes -- In support of the Oppian law / Cato, the elder -- To his soldiers / Hannibal -- First oration against Catiline / Cicero -- The fourth Philippic / Cicero -- To the conspirators / Catiline -- To his troops / Catiline -- On the treatment of the conspirators / Julius Caesar -- The Catilinarian conspirators / Cato, the younger -- Oration on the dead body of Julius Caesar / Mark Antony -- A second crusade / St. Bernard -- Sermon to the birds / St. Francis -- Before the diet of worms / Martin Luther -- On suffering persecution / John Calvin -- Before invading Silesia, 1740 / Frederick the great -- Before the battle of Leuthen, 1757 / Frederick the great -- Advocating the execution of Louis XVI / Desmoulins -- Against the charge of treason / Mirabeau -- "To dare again, ever to dare!" / Danton -- "Let France be free!" / Danton -- Defense against the charges / Marat -- The festival of the Supreme Being / Robespierre -- At the beginning of the Italian campaign / Napolean Bonaparte -- On entering Milan / Napoleon Bonaparte -- On beginning the Russian campaign / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Farewell to the old guard / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Against Imperialism / Carnot -- Voltaire / Victor Hugo -- To the young men of Italy / Giuseppe Mazzini -- To his soldiers / Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Rome and Italy / Cavour -- America's welcome / Louis Kossuth -- To the delegates from Alsace / Leon Gambetta -- Appeal for Dreyfus / Emile Zola -- Christian Democracy / Leo XIII -- War and armaments in Europe / Otto von Bismarck -- Germany and the War / Bethmann-Hollweg -- Address to the German people / Kaiser Wilhelm II -- Last speech / Jean Jaurés -- The spirit of France / Renée Viviani -- Coronation day sermon / Cardinal Mercier -- One aim: victory / Georges Clemenceau -- To workingmen and soldiers / Alexander Kerensky -- To the Red Army / Leon Trotzky -- The dictatorship of the Proletariat / Nikolai Lenin -- Napoleon / Marshal Ferdinand Foch -- Naval Disarmament / Aristide Briand -- On the dissolution of Parliament / Oliver Cromwell -- On a motion for his removal / Sir Robert Wasdpole -- God's love to fallen man / John Wesley -- On the right of taxing America / William Pitt, Earl of Chatham -- Conciliation with America / Edumnd Burke -- Indictment of Warren Hastings / Edmund Burke -- At the trial of Waren Hastings / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- On his refusal to negotiate with Bonaparte / William Pitt -- On refusal to negotiate with Bonaparte / Charles James Fox -- The fall of Napoleon / George Canning -- On the reform bill / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The effects of protection on agriculture / Richard Cobden -- The "Trent" affair / John Bright -- Peace with honor / Benjamin Disraeli -- On domestic and foreign affairs / William Ewart Gladstone -- Anti-Semitism / Cardinal Manning -- The British empire / Joseph Chamberlain -- Militant Suffragists / Emmeline Pankhurst -- England's position / Sir Edward Grey -- An appeal to the nation / David Lloyd George -- The fourth of July / Arthur James Balfour -- Peace / James Ramsay MacDonald -- Women in politics / Lasy Astor -- On his seventieth birthday / George Bernard Shaw -- Justice for Ireland / Daniel O'Connell -- Protest against sentence as traitor / Robert Emmet -- The Home Rule Bill / Charles Steware Parnell -- The Irish free state / Arthur Griffith -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards -- The Boston Massacre / John Hancock -- "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" Patrick Henry -- American Independence / Samuel Adams -- On the faults of the constitution / Benjamin Franklin -- The States and the Federal Government / James Madison -- Justice and the Federal Constitution / John Marshall -- The Federal Constitution / Alexander Hamilton -- Inaugural address / George Washington -- Farewll address / George Washington -- First Inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton / Gouveneur Morris -- Red Jacket / American Indians -- Tecumseh / American Indians -- Adams and Jefferson / Edward Everett -- Reply to Hayne / Daniel Webster -- Second Inaugural address / Andrew Jackson -- The murder of Lovejoy / Wendell Phillips -- The preservation of the Union / Rufus Choate -- Slavery / John Caldwell Calhoun -- On the compromise of 1850 / Henry Clay -- The crime against Kansas / Charles Sumner -- The irrepressible Conflict / William Henry Seward -- On being sentenced to death / John Brown -- On the death of John Brown / William Lloyd Garrison -- Reply to Lincoln / Stephen Arnold Douglas -- On withdrawal from the Union / Jefferson Davis -- On his nomination to the Senate / Abraham Lincoln -- Farewell address at Springfield / Abraham Lincoln -- Address at Gettysburg / Abraham Lincoln -- Second Inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The system of slavery / Henry Ward Beecher -- On woman's right to suffrage / Susan B. Anthony -- Blaine-The plumed knight / Robert Green Ingersoll -- Oration at his brother's grave / Robert Green Ingersoll -- On the death of Garfield / James Gillespie Blaine -- First Inaugural address / Grover Cleveland -- The Columbian oration / Chauncey Mitchell Depew -- The American Standard / Booker T. Washington -- The croos of gold / William Jennings Bryan -- The Republic that never retreats / Albert J. Beveridge -- The retention of the Philippines / Henry Cabot Lodge -- Address at Buffalo / William McKinley -- Manhood or Money / Robert Marion La Follette -- The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt -- Washington's Birthday / Jane Addams -- Lincoln, Man and American / Stephen S. Wise -- Peace without victory / Woodrow Wilson -- Declaration of war / Woodrow Wilson -- The fourteen points / Woodrow Wilson -- The League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- The League of Nations / Eugene Victor Drebs -- A plea for the League of Nations / Elihu Root -- "Live - I am coming!" / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- On Canadian Federation / Sir John A. Macdonald -- Canada, England, and the United States / Sir Wilfrid Laurier -- The voice of the empire / Sir Robert Laird Borden -- Address at Angostura / Simon Bolivar -- Peace and empire / Jan C. Smuts -- Nationalism in India / Rabindranath Tagore -- Non-cooperation / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- National Morale and world tranquillity / Sun Yat-sen -- Modern trade unionism / William Green -- Religious prejudice and politics / Alfred E. Smith -- American labor / Fiorello H. laGuardia -- A plea for mercy / Clarence S. Darrow -- The rights of labor / John L. Lewis -- Speaking for the consumer / William Allen White -- Rendezvous with despair / Thomas E. Dewey -- The Bill of Rights / Herbert Hoover -- Our government / Charles Evans Hughes -- A frim policy / Anthony Eden -- The Munich agreement / Neville Chamberlain -- "Blood, sweat, and tears" / Winston Churchill -- Dunkirk / Winston Churchill -- "Their finest hour" / Winston Churchill -- The war on Russia / Winston Churchill -- Address before the United States Congress / Winston Churchill -- The Atlantic Charter / Clement R. Attlee -- Canada and the war / W. L. Mackenzie King -- Nazis' aim is slavery / Edouard Daladier -- France will live again! / Paul Reynaud -- "I need your confidence!" / Henri Philippe Pétan -- Ireland among the nations / Eamon de Valera -- The League of Nations / Maxim Litvinov -- The position of Ethiopia / Haile Selassie -- United hemisphere Defense / Frederico Laredo Bru -- Germany's claims / Adolf Hitler -- / No more territorial demands / Adolf Hitler -- German Conquests / Adolf Hitler -- A call to arms / Benito Mussolini -- Anniversary of Italy's entry in the war / Benito Mussolini -- The Nazi war on Russian / Vyacheslav M. Molotov -- "Defend every inch of Soviet soil!" / Joseph Stalin -- The triple Alliance / Fumimaro Konoye -- War between justice and force / Chiang Kai-shek -- Appeal for peace / Pius XII --

First Inaugural address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- hemisphere Defense for Democracy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- "The arsenal for Democracy" / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Freedom of the seas / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- For a Declaration of War against Japan / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- America's answer to Japan's challenge / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- First war address before Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- "Loyal opposition" / Wendell L. Wilkie -- American Liberty / Wendell L. Willkie -- The pillars of enduring peace / Cordell Hull -- What are we arming to defend? / James Bryant Conant -- An independent policy / Charles A. Lindbergh -- A grave situation / Henry L Stimson -- What constitutes an Amercan / Harold L. Ickes -- We must fight for our liberties / Frank Knox -- The cross and the double cross / Fulton J. Sheen -- Hitler's plans for Canada and the United States / Dorothy Thompson -- America's second chance / Henry A. Wallace -- America and the war / Norman Thomas -- Control of atomic weapons / Bernard Mannes Baruch -- Inaugural address / Harry S. Truman -- Powers of the President / Harry S. Truman -- Old soldiers never die / Douglas MacArthur -- Acceptance of nomination / Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- United States Far Eastern policy / Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- Inaugural address / Dwight David Eisenhower -- Peaceful use of atomic energy / Dwight David Eisenhower -- The spirit of Geneva / Dwight David Eisenhower -- An iron curtain has descended / Winston Churchill -- Asia finds herself again / Jawaharlal Nehru -- A glory has departed / Jawaharlal Nehru -- A new order through the United Nations / Oswaldo Aranha -- The search for international cooperation / Pierre Mendés-France-- Values of nationalism and internationalism / Dag Hammarskjold -- The lessening of international tension / Nickolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin -- On architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Peace in the atomic age / Albert Einstein -- Acceptance of the Nobel Prize / William Faulkner -- A visit to America / Dylan Thomas -- The United Nations as a bridge / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Prospect in the arts and sciences / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- A historical agreement / Walter Philip Reuther -- To the graduating class as Smith College / Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- The memory of Burns / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- English Frienship for America / Charles Dickens -- A tribue to Oliver Wendell Holmes / Julia Ward Howe -- After-dinner oratory / James Russell Lowell -- Dorothy Q. / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Through the dark continent / Henry Morton Stanley -- Merchants and ministers / Henry Ward Beecher -- Woman / Chauncey Mitchell Depew -- The bench and the bar / Joseph Hodges Choate -- A tribute to the dog / George Graham Vest -- Woman! / Horace Porter -- Science and Art / Thomas Henry Huxley -- The old world and the new / Carl Schurz -- "Pinafore" / William Schwenck Gilbert -- Music / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- Boston / Edward Everett Hale -- The New Englanders / Ulysses Simpson Grant -- New England Weather / Samuel L. Clemens -- The babies / Samuel L. Clemens -- Woman, God Bless Her! / Samuel L. Clemens -- Harvard and Yale / Charles William Eliot -- The Puritan and the Cavalier / Henry Watterson -- Omar Khyyam / John Hay -- The drama / Sir Henry Irving -- Farthest North / Robert Edwin Peary -- General Goethals and the Panama Canal / Andrew Carnegie -- Englishmen and Americans / Lord Cecil -- Literature and the press / Sir James Matthew Barrie -- The lost tribes of the Irish in the south / Irvin S. Cobb -- Wealth and education / Will Rogers -- Owning books / William Lyon Phelps -- Farewell Address / Edward VIII -- Culture / Owen D. Young -- Our family creed / John D. Rockefeller Jr. -- Inaugural address / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- The strategy of peace / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- Poetry and Power / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Farewell address / Dwight David Eisenhower -- War and poverty / Robert S. MacNamara -- On Vietnam and on the decision not to seek reelection / Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Uncritical lovers, unloving critics / John W. Gradner -- A generation in search of a future / George Wald -- First inaugural address / Richard Milous Nixon -- To the astronauts on the moon / Richard Milhous Nixon -- Second inaugural address as Mayor / John Vliet Lindsay -- The personality cult and its consequences / Nikita Segeyevich Khrushchev -- Recent thoughts on the two cultures / Lord Snow -- Independence for Algeria / Charles de Gaulle -- The opening of the ecumenical Council / Pope John XXIII -- No more war / Pope Paul VI -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- The meaning of July fourth for the negro / Frederick Douglass -- Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass -- Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- Behold the land / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The black revolution / Malcolm X --