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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... citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications , could not but overwhelm with despondence , one , who inheriting inferior endowments from nature , and unpractised in the duties of civil administration , ought to be peculiarly ...
... citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications , could not but overwhelm with despondence , one , who inheriting inferior endowments from nature , and unpractised in the duties of civil administration , ought to be peculiarly ...
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... citizens who had fallen in the first year of the Peloponnesian War ' the whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men . ' All time , he might have added , is the millennium of their glory . Surely I would do no injustice to the other ...
... citizens who had fallen in the first year of the Peloponnesian War ' the whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men . ' All time , he might have added , is the millennium of their glory . Surely I would do no injustice to the other ...
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... citizens ; nor yet we , the male citizens ; but we , the whole people , who formed the Union . And we formed it , not to give the blessings of liberty , but to secure them ; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity ...
... citizens ; nor yet we , the male citizens ; but we , the whole people , who formed the Union . And we formed it , not to give the blessings of liberty , but to secure them ; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity ...
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SIR THOMAS MORE 14781535 | 1 |
LANCELOT ANDREWS 15551626 | 7 |
JOHN WESLEY 17031791 | 14 |
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