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100 speeches that changed the world / Colin Salter.

by Salter, Colin, 1957- author.

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New York : Universe Publishing, 2019.

Speeches, addresses, etc.

9780789339973 (hardcover)

0789339978 (hardcover)

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 20 cm

I know that I know nothing / Socrates -- Speech by the Hydaspes River / Alexander the Great -- O tempora! O mores! / Cicero -- Sermon on the mount / Jesus Christ -- I have slain the English / William Wallace -- I have the heart and stomach of a king / Elizabeth I -- Execution speech / Charles I -- Give me liberty, or give me death / Patrick Henry -- Abolition of slavery speech / William Wilberforce -- Justification for the "reign of terror" / Maximilien Robespierre -- Farewell address / George Washington -- Speech to Congress on "Indian removal" / Andrew Jackson -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- What to the slave is the 4th of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Oxford evolution debate / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Cornerstone speech, justifying the confederacy / Alexander Stephens -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Second Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Surrender speech / Chief Joseph -- The love that dare not speak its name / Oscar Wilde -- Votes for women / Mark Twain -- Freedom or death speech / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Ireland unfree shall never be at peace / Patrick Pearse -- Power to the Soviets speech / Vladimir Lenin -- Fourteen points / Woodrow Wilson -- My spiritial message / Mahatma Gandhi -- First speech as chancellor of Germany / Adolf Hitler -- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Abdication speech / Edward VIII -- Peace for our time / Neville Chamberlain -- The luckiest man on the face of this earth / Lou Gehrig -- Obersalzberg speech / Adolf Hitler -- Declaration of war against Germany / George VI -- Urging the US to stay neutral in WWII / Charles Lindbergh -- Blood, toil, tears, and sweat / Winston Churchill -- We shall fight on the beaches / Winston Churchill -- This was their finest hour / Winston Churchill -- Appeal of June 18 / General de Gaulle -- Radio speech on Nazi invasion / Vyacheslav Molotov -- A date which will live in infamy / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Announcing the Allies had landed in France / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Denouncing divine status / Emperor Hirohito -- An iron curtain has descended / Winston Churchill -- Nuremberg Trial testimony / Albert Speer -- Tryst with destiny / Jawaharlal Nehru -- Israeli Declaration of Independence / David Ben-Gurion -- Speech on the founding of the NHS / Aneurin Bevan -- The Chinese people have stood up! / Chariman Mao Zedong -- Speech to the descamisados / Eva Perón -- Coronation speech / Queen Elizabeth II -- Racial segregation US schools ruling / Earl Warren -- Cult of the individual / Nikita Khruschev -- The wind of change is blowing through this continent / Harold Macmillan -- Home from the Army press conference / Elvis Presley -- United Nations' speech / Fidel Castro -- Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial / Mervyn Griffith-Jones -- Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy -- We choose to go to the moon / John F. Kennedy -- Ich bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. -- The white heat of technology / Harold Wilson -- I am the greatest! / Muhammad Ali -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- An ideal for which I am prepared to die / Nelson Mandela -- We're more popular than Jesus apology / John Lennon -- Turn on, tune in, drop out / Timothy Leary -- Loving vs. Virginia / Earl Warren -- Denouncing the Vietnam War / Eugene McCarthy -- I've been to the mountaintop / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Rivers of blood / Enoch Powell -- One giant leap for mankind / Neil Armstrong -- This is America and they are going to have their festival / Max B. Yasgur -- Strike for equality / Betty Friedan -- Vietnam Veterans against the war / John Kerry -- Roe vs. Wade / Harry Blackmun -- Announcement of resignation / Richard Nixon -- You have to give people hope / Harvey Milk -- The lady's not for turning / Margaret Thatcher -- Tear down this wall! / Ronald Reagan -- We have waited too long for our freedom / Nelson Mandela -- Farewell address / Mikhail S. Gorbachev -- On the pulse of morning / Maya Angelou -- A very Chinese city with British characteristics / Christ Patten -- The most hunted person of the modern age / Earl Spencer -- I have sinned / Bill Clinton -- Address to Irish Parliament / Tony Blair -- Address to the nation / George W. Bush -- Address to the United States / Osama bin Laden -- Keynote address at the Democratic National Convention / Barack Obama -- Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone / Steve Jobs -- Commencement address at Harvard / Bill Gates -- Yes, we can! / Barack Obama -- The right of education for every child / Malala Yousafzai -- Stanford Rape Trial statement to court / Emily Doe -- Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence / Stephen Hawking -- I am a nasty woman / Ashley Judd -- Commencement address at Harvard / Mark Zuckerberg -- Senate testimony / James Comey -- Becoming a multiplanet species / Elon Musk -- Their time is up / Oprah Winfrey.

The history of the world as witnessed through the most inspiring, rousing, and memorable speeches ever given. Throughout history, passionate orators have rallied nations, challenged accepted beliefs, and changed the course of history. Colin Salter has identified one-hundred of history's most inspirational, momentous, and thought-provoking speeches from ancient Rome and Athens to the 21st century and puts them into context, telling the stories behind the words that made history. A celebration of the power of spoken rhetoric at its finest, this book profiles the words of the world's greatest public speakers. The speeches covered span the spectrum from stirring calls to arms to impassioned pleas for peace, along with speeches that marked major historical events such as the abolition of slavery, women achieving the right to vote, and the expansion of civil rights. Each speech features a concise introduction along with detailed analysis accompanied by key illustrations and photographs. Highlighted speeches include: Elizabeth I's speech in preparation of the Spanish Armada (1588), Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" (1851), Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863), Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself" (1933), Winston Churchill, "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (1940), Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" (1963), Harvey Milk's "Hope Speech" (1978), Margaret Thatcher's "The Lady's not for Turning" (1980), Nelson Mandela on his release from prison (1990), among many more.

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