Ebook: The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

Johnson357 -- 'This is the goal' (1966) /Roy Jenkins362 -- 'A tiny ripple of hope' (1966) /Robert Kennedy366 -- 'The decent opinion of mankind' (1967) /Eugene McCarthy372 -- 'We will be free' (1968) /Melina Mercouri376 -- 'I shall not seek nor will I accept nomination as your president' (1968) /Lyndon B. Johnson380 -- 'I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood"' (1968) /Enoch Powell383 -- 'The time has come for an honest government' (1968) /Richard Nixon392 -- 'A woman's civil right' (1969) /Betty Friedan396 -- 'Millions will rejoice' (1971) /Edward Heath400 -- 'Au revoir' (1974) /Richard Nixon403 -- 'Our human stock is threatened' (1974) /Sir Keith Joseph405 -- 'Let me give you my vision' (1975) /Margaret Thatcher409 -- 'I late, ignorance and evil' (1975) /Chaim Herzog413 -- 'The red flame of Socialist courage' (1976) /Michael Foot418;'Do not reject this man' (1960) /Eugene McCarthy291 -- 'A new frontier' (1960) /John F. Kennedy294 -- 'The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans' (1961) /John F. Kennedy297 -- 'That man was Eichmann' (1961) /Gideon Hausner301 -- 'We will fight, fight and fight again' (1961) /Hugh Gaitskell308 -- 'The brotherhood of man' (1961) /Iain Macleod310 -- 'Duty -- Honor -- Country' (1962) /Douglas MacArthur313 -- 'The end of a thousand years of history' (1962) /Hugh Gaitskell319 -- 'Ich bin ein Berliner' (1963) /John F. Kennedy322 -- 'Never glad confident morning again' (1963) /Nigel Birch324 -- 'I have a dream' (1963) /Martin Luther King327 -- 'The white heat of technology' (1963) /Harold Wilson332 -- 'Let us continue' (1963) /Lyndon B. Johnson334 -- 'An ideal for which I am prepared to die' (1964) /Nelson Mandela337 -- 'The Great Society' (1964) /Lyndon B. Johnson;'The supreme justiciar of the German people' (1934) /Adolf Hitler133 -- 'England again dares to be great' (1935) /Oswald Mosley136 -- '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 Roosevelt139 -- 'The locust years' (1936) /Winston Churchill141 -- 'I shall always trust the instincts of our democratic people' (1936) /Stanley Baldwin143 -- 'The Jews carry Palestine in their hearts' (1936) /Chaim Weizmann146 -- 'I have determined to renounce the Throne' (1936) /Edward VIII153 -- 'The House today is a theatre which is being watched by the whole world' (1936) /Stanley Baldwin155 -- 'God Save the King' (1936) /Edward VIII158 -- 'I stake my life' (1937) /Leon Trotsky160 -- 'The oppression is growing' (1937) /Martin Niemoller164 -- 'My patience is now at an end' (1938) /Adolf Hitler;'There is no salvation for India' (1916) /Mahatma Gandhi47 -- 'Ireland summons her children to the flag' (1916) /Proclamation of the Irish Republic50 -- 'In Ireland alone, in this twentieth century, is loyalty held to be a crime' (1916) /Roger Casement52 -- 'The world must be made safe for democracy' (1917) /Woodrow Wilson59 -- 'A new phase in the history of Russia begins' (1917) /V.I. Lenin62 -- 'The dustbin of history' (1917) /Leon Trotsky65 -- 'We need an army' (1918) /Leon Trotsky66 -- 'While there is a lower class, I am in it' (1918) /Eugene V. Debs69 -- 'A fit country for heroes to live in' (1918) /David Lloyd George72 -- 'American I was born' (1919) /Henry Cabot Lodge75 -- 'Man will see the truth' (1919) /Woodrow Wilson78 -- 'A man as low and mean as I can picture' (1919) /Alfred E. Smith81 -- 'The eyes of the whole Empire are on Ireland today' (1921) /George V83;199 -- 'A grave danger hangs over our country' (1941) /Joseph Stalin203 -- 'A date which will live in infamy' (1941) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt206 -- 'The final solution' (1942) /Reinhard Heydrich208 -- 'We will stand and fight here' (1942) /General Bernard Montgomery211 -- 'Give me your children' (1942) /Chaim Rumkowski214 -- 'The vision of such an Ireland' (1943) /Eamon de Valera218 -- 'That son of a bitch Patton again' (1943-4) /General George Patton221 -- 'Obliteration is not a justifiable act of war' (1944) /Bishop George Bell223 -- 'Our deep moral dependence' (1945) /J. Robert Oppenheimer227 -- The 'iron curtain' (1946) /Winston Churchill231 -- 'A choice between the quick and the dead' (1946) /Bernard Baruch234 -- 'The noble mansion of free India' (1947) /Jawaharlal Nehru237 -- 'The light has gone out of our lives' (1948) /Jawaharlal Nehru241;'What is the joy about?' (1978) /Alexander Solzhenitsyn421 -- 'Home Thoughts from Abroad' (1979) /Roy Jenkins424 -- 'The dream shall never die' (1980) /Edward Kennedy429 -- 'We are reaping the whirlwind of all our yesterdays' (1981) /Michael Heseltine431 -- 'The Falklands Factor' (1982) /Margaret Thatcher434 -- 'Our neighbours are indeed like us' (1982) /Robert Runcie436 -- 'I warn you' (1983) /Neil Kinnock439 -- 'We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing' (1983) /Pope John Paul II441 -- 'The great she-elephant, she who must be obeyed' (1984) /Denis Healey444 -- 'A monstrous carbuncle' (1984) /Prince Charles446 -- 'Let us make a vow to the dead' (1984) /Ronald Reagan449 -- 'You can't play politics with people's jobs' (1985) /Neil Kinnock451 -- 'The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted' (1986) /Ronald Reagan454;166 -- 'Peace for our time' (1938) /Neville Chamberlain170 -- 'My bead erect' (1938) /Duff Cooper171 -- 'A total and unmitigated defeat' (1938) /Winston Churchill172 -- 'Is this an attempt to dominate the world by force?' (1939) /Neville Chamberlain175 -- 'This country is at war with Germany' (1939) /Neville Chamberlain179 -- 'In the name of God, go' (1940) /Leo Amery181 -- 'Sacrifice the seals of office' (1940) /David Lloyd George184 -- 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat' (1940) /Winston Churchill187 -- 'Be ye men of valour' (1940) /Winston Churchill188 -- 'This was their finest hour' (1940) /Winston Churchill190 -- 'The flame of French resistance' (1940) /Charles de Gaulle191 -- 'This little steamer' (1940) /J.B. Priestley194 -- 'The arsenal of democracy' (1940) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt196 -- 'The four freedoms' (1941) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt;344 -- 'Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice' (1964) /Barry Goldwater347 -- 'A time for choosing' (1964) /Ronald Reagan350 -- 'More African than American' (1965) /Malcolm X353 -- 'We shall overcome' (1965) /Lyndon B.;'Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?' (1987) /Neil Kinnock456 -- 'Now is the time' (1988) /Edward Kennedy459.;'I have in my hand ... ' (1950) /Joseph McCarthy243 -- 'The agony and the sweat' (1950) /William Faulkner246 -- 'There is only one hope for mankind' (1951) /Aneurin Bevan248 -- 'Let's talk sense to the American people' (1952) /Adlai Stevenson251 -- 'The motion of destiny' (1953) /Kwame Nkrumah253 -- 'History will absolve me' (1953) /Fidel Castro257 -- 'Shall we choose death?' (1954) /Bertrand Russell262 -- 'There comes a time when people get tired' (1955) /Martin Luther King265 -- 'We must abolish the cult of the individual' (1956) /Nikita Khrushchev267 -- 'We have to act up to different standards' (1956) /Aneurin Bevan274 -- 'Naked into the conference chamber' (1957) /Aneurin Bevan277 -- 'Hola Camp' (1959) /Enoch Powell279 -- 'An ugly society, a rulgar society, a meretricious society' (1959) /Aneurin Bevan282 -- 'The wind of change' (1960) /Harold Macmillan286;'Non-violence is the first article of my faith' (1922) /Mahatma Gandhi85 -- 'A message to every land where the Jewish race is scattered' (1922) /A.J. Balfour91 -- 'The sounds of England' (1924) /Stanley Baldwin94 -- 'The life of the Negro race has been a life of tragedy' (1926) /Clarence Darrow96 -- 'I am never be guilty, never' (1927) /Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti100 -- 'Rugged individualism' (1928) /Herbert Hoover103 -- 'The nation has to be mobilized' (1930) /Oswald Mosley106 -- 'We are not on trial' (1930) /Ramsay MacDonald109 -- 'Either we do it -- or they crush us' (1931) /Joseph Stalin112 -- 'Bolshevism run mad' (1931) /Philip Snowden114 -- 'An indomitable aggressive spirit' (1932) /Adolf Hitler116 -- 'The bomber will always get through' (1932) /Stanley Baldwin124 -- 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' (1933) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt128;'The doctrine of the strenuous life' (1899) /Theodore Roosevelt1 -- 'Methods of barbarism' (1901) /Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman4 -- 'Socialism' (1901) /Keir Hardie6 -- 'I believe in a British Empire and I do not believe in a Little England' (1903) /Joseph Chamberlain9 -- 'I warn the Government' (1906) /F.E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead13 -- 'The men with the muck-rakes' (1906) /Theodore Roosevelt18 -- 'The plight of women' (1908) /Emmeline Pankhurst20 -- 'The People's Budget' (1909) /David Lloyd George23 -- 'We are in for rough weather' (1909) /David Lloyd George28 -- 'The new nationalism' (1910) /Theodore Roosevelt30 -- 'Freedom or death' (1913) /Emmeline Pankhurst33 -- 'Ulster is asking to be let alone' (1914) /Edward Carson37 -- 'The great pinnacle of sacrifice' (1914) /David Lloyd George39 -- 'Ireland unfree shall never be at peace' (1915) /Patrick Pearse45