The Voice of History: Great Speeches of the English LanguageFrom Elizabeth I to Winston Churchill, Sir Thomas More to Martin Luther King, Oliver Cromwell to Adlai Stevenson, George Washington to Mrs Pankhurst... Here, brought together for the first time, is some of the finest oratory in the English language, a selection of the most inspiring and exciting, stirring and significant words ever spoken in public. |
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... honour I cannot conceive any case , in which a great nation , having committed itself by a menace , can withdraw ... honour . How do ministers think on this subject ? Otchakoff was everything by itself , but when they added to Otchakoff ...
... honour I cannot conceive any case , in which a great nation , having committed itself by a menace , can withdraw ... honour . How do ministers think on this subject ? Otchakoff was everything by itself , but when they added to Otchakoff ...
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... Honour , years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings , and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest of earth . I said then , I say now , that while there is a lower class , I am in it ; while there ...
... Honour , years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings , and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest of earth . I said then , I say now , that while there is a lower class , I am in it ; while there ...
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... Honour , why their proud names and all the future generations that bear them shall have this bar sinister written across them ? How many boys and girls , how many unborn children will feel it ? It is bad enough as it is , God knows . It ...
... Honour , why their proud names and all the future generations that bear them shall have this bar sinister written across them ? How many boys and girls , how many unborn children will feel it ? It is bad enough as it is , God knows . It ...
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SIR THOMAS MORE 14781535 | 1 |
LANCELOT ANDREWS 15551626 | 7 |
JOHN WESLEY 17031791 | 14 |
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