Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches in History.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- An Introductory Address -- I. Memorials and Patriotic Speeches -- Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons -- Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee -- Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness -- Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument -- Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day -- Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg -- Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July -- President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts -- Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists -- Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty -- Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Group's Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel -- Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism -- General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country -- II. War and Revolution Speeches -- Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights -- Pope Urban II Launches the First Crusade -- Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada -- Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution -- An Indian Chief Pledges Help -- General Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection -- Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions -- Revolutionist Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish -- Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against France's Enemies -- Garibaldi Prepares Italy's Guerrillas for Battle -- Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate -- Chief Joseph Surrenders -- President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress -- Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship -- Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia -- Hitler Declares Germany's Intentions -- Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task.

Churchill Rallies the British People after the "Miracle of Deliverance" at Dunkirk -- Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitler's Troops -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan -- General Montgomery Takes Command and Draws the Line at El Alamein -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands -- Israel's Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy -- III. Tributes and Eulogies -- Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar -- Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette -- Henry Lee Remembers George Washington -- Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams -- Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns -- Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man -- Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll Speaks at His Brother's Grave -- James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield -- Jane Addams Praises George Washington -- Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln -- Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson -- Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Toasts a Lexicographer -- George Bernard Shaw Salutes His Friend Albert Einstein -- India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Delivers the Eulogy for Gandhi -- John F. Kennedy, in Praise of Robert Frost, Celebrates the Arts in America -- Senator Robert F. Kennedy Speaks after the Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. -- President Richard M. Nixon Defines "Politician" in Eulogizing Senator Everett Dirksen -- President Jimmy Carter Salutes His Good Friend Hubert H. Humphrey -- Senator Daniel P. Moynihan Spoofs Abstractionist Art at a Dedication Ceremony -- Actor-Director Orson Welles Eulogizes Another Hollywood Legend, Darryl F. Zanuck.

Secretary Jack Kemp, Saluting Winston Churchill, Applies the Munich Analogy to Kuwait -- President Boris Yeltsin of Russia Eulogizes Victims of Communism's Final Power Play -- Senate Leader Robert Dole Remembers Richard Nixon as "One of Us" -- IV. Debates and Argumentation -- Cicero Rails against Catiline and His Conspiracies -- Lord General Oliver Cromwell Orders the "Rump Parliament" Out of the House -- A Youthful William Pitt the Elder Debates the Merits of Age -- William Pitt the Younger and Charles Fox Disagree on Napoleon's Offers of Peace -- Senator Daniel Webster Backs the Union in His Reply to Senator Hayne -- Senator John C. Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism of President Andrew Jackson -- Abolitionist Charles Sumner Excoriates Two Senate Colleagues on the Issue of "Bloody Kansas" -- Senator Stephen Douglas Differs with Lincoln on the "Popular Sovereignty" Decision on Slavery -- John Cabell Breckinridge Disputes Colonel E. D. Baker's Charge of Treason -- Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations -- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Appeals to the League of Nations to Stop Aggression -- Candidates Nixon and Kennedy Meet in the First Televised Presidential Debate -- Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen Clash on Qualifications for the Presidency -- V. Trials -- Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms -- Sir Thomas More Defends Himself against Charges of Treason -- Robert Emmet Demands That Posterity Be the Judge of His Irish Patriotism -- Novelist Emile Zola Turns His Libel Defense into an Appeal to Free Falsely Convicted Dreyfus -- Antiwar Dissident Eugene V. Debs Addresses the Court before Sentencing -- Gandhi Defends His Beliefs -- Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers a Supporter of Capital Punishment -- Cuban Rebel Fidel Castro Defies His Captors and Predicts That History Will Absolve Him.

Defense Attorney Johnnie Cochran Wins Acquittal for the Accused Killer O. J. Simpson -- VI. Gallows and Farewell Speeches -- Socrates, Condemned to Death, Addresses His Judges -- Charles I and, Later, His Regicide Speak from the Scaffold -- Rebel Richard Rumbold, on the Gallows, Attacks Booted and Spurred Privilege -- Revolutionist Robespierre Delivers His Final Speech -- President George Washington Delivers His Farewell -- John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about His Death Sentence -- King Edward VIII Abdicates His Throne -- Yankee Great Lou Gehrig Bids Farewell to Baseball -- General Douglas MacArthur Moves Congress with "Old Soldiers Never Die" -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower Takes His Leave with a Surprising Theme -- President Lyndon B. Johnson Halts the Bombing in Vietnam and Drops His Own Political Bomb -- Speaker of the House James Wright Resigns as "Propitiation" for Ill Will -- VII. Sermons -- The Buddha Urges a Turning Away from Craving in His "Fire Sermon" -- Jesus of Nazareth Delivers the Sermon on the Mount -- Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds -- John Wyclif Gives the Sixth Sunday Gospel after Easter -- Religious Scourge Savonarola Demands Repentance from the Citizens of Florence -- John Calvin Preaches on Suffering Persecution -- Calvinist Jonathan Edwards Promises Hellfire and Damnation to the Sinful -- Methodist John Wesley Asserts "Free Grace" to Deny the Implacability of Fate -- Clergyman John Witherspoon Couples Religion with Politics -- Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion -- Bishop James Madison Speaks on Divine Providence toward America -- Lincoln, in His Second Inaugural, Seeks to Heal the Spiritual Wounds of War -- Preacher Henry Ward Beecher Speaks of Visions -- Evangelist Billy Sunday Preaches a Revival Sermon -- Bishop Fulton John Sheen Makes a Wartime Plea.

Rabbi Louis Finkelstein Delivers a Sermon in the White House -- President Ronald Reagan Inveighs against the Sinfulness of Communism -- The Exiled Dalai Lama Espouses a Philosophy of Compassion -- VIII. Inspirational Speeches -- Chemist Louis Pasteur Praises the Rise of Scientific Education -- Theodore Roosevelt Blasts Ignoble Ease and Advocates the Strenuous Life -- Mark Twain Reveals Stage Fright -- Branch Rickey Discovers the Quality That Makes a Ballplayer Great -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Acknowledges a Ninetieth-Birthday Tribute -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Sets Forth His Family's Creed -- General Patton Motivates the 3rd Army on the Eve of the Invasion of Europe -- Nobel Laureate William Faulkner Charges Writers with the Duty to Help Humanity Prevail -- President John F. Kennedy Assures West Germany of America's Steadfastness -- Senator Everett Dirksen Extols the Marigold -- President William Jefferson Clinton Urges Memphis Churchgoers to "Make Our People Whole Again" -- President George W. Bush Envisions the "Age of Liberty" -- IX. Lectures and Instructive Speeches -- Philosopher-Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Defines the Duties of the American Scholar -- Edgar Allan Poe Presents His Theory of Beauty and Poetry -- Mark Twain Stuns the Littery World by Spoofing Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes to Their Faces -- First Female Member of Parliament, Lady Astor, Expounds on Women in Politics -- William Lyon Phelps Praises the Owning of Books -- Broadcaster John Hilton Talks about Talking -- Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Calls Up the Image of "the Floo Floo Bird" -- Secretary of State Dean Acheson Explains Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union -- Senator Henry Jackson Analyzes International Terrorism -- Presidential Aide Jack Valenti Recalls the Lessons Learned at the Center of Power.

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