Infamous speeches
Subtitle: from Robespierre to Osama bin Laden
By: edited by Bob Blaisdell
Series: Dover thrift editions
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780486478494
Subjects: Sources; Extremists; World politics; World history; Speeches, addresses; History
Table of contents: title: "The principles of political morality" (February 5, 1794) / Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre; title: Address to his troops at the beginning of the Russian Campaign (May 1812) / Napoleon Bonaparte; title: "Indian removal" (December 7, 1835) / President Andrew Jackson; title: "We of the South will not, cannot, surrender our institutions" (February 6, 1837) / John C. Calhoun; title: "On withdrawal from the Union" (January 21, 1861) / Jefferson Davis; title: "The North American Indian cannot be civilized, cannot be Christianized" (July 17, 1867) / Jacob Howard; title: Opening address at the Geographical Conference on Africa (September 12, 1876) / King Leopold II; title: "A plea for imperial armament" (February 6, 1888) / Otto von Bismarck; title: "The future of the British Empire" (November 6, 1895) / Joseph Chamberlain; title: "If this be imperialism, its final end will be the empire of the Son of Man" (January 9, 1900) / Albert Jeremiah Beveridge; title: "Honest graft and dishonest graft" (ca. 1905) / George Washington Plunkitt; title: "The sword must decide" (August 6, 1914) / Kaiser Wilhelm II; title: On the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly (January 6, 1918) / Vladimir Lenin; title: The Scopes "Monkey Trial" (July 16, 1925) / William Jennings Bryan; title: "Our Hitler" (April 20, 1933) / Joseph Goebbels; title: "We have been patient with Ethiopia for forty years" (October 2, 1935) / Benito Mussolini; title: "Defects in party work and measures for liquidating Trotskyite and other double dealers" (March 3, 1937) / Josef Stalin; title: "The Munich Agreement" (October 3, 1938) / Neville Chamberlain; title: "The meaning of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact" (August 31, 1939) / V.M. Molotov; title: "America first" (September 11, 1941) / Charles A. Lindbergh; title: "Nothing is impossible for the German soldier" (May 4, 1941) / Adolph Hitler; title: Radio speech #6 from Fascist Italy (January 29, 1942) / Ezra Pound; title: Imperial surrender broadcast (August 15, 1945) / Emperor Hirohito of Japan; title: "Enemies from within" (February 9, 1950) / Joseph R. McCarthy; title: "A great leap forward" (May 17, 1958) / Mao Tse-Tung; title: The Governor of Alabama's inaugural address (January 14, 1963) / George C. Wallace; title: Presidential address to the Egyptian National Assembly on the Israeli-Palestian Conflict (May 29, 1967) / Gamal Abdel Nasser; title: "Rivers of blood" (April 20, 1968) / Enoch Powell; title: Broadcast address on Chappaquiddick to the people of Massachusetts (July 25, 1969) / Edward M. Kennedy; title: "Hanoi Jane" (August 22, 1972) / Jane Fonda; title: First Watergate speech (April 30, 1973) / Richard M. Nixon; title: Address to the United Nations General Assembly : "The question of palestine" (November 13, 1974) / Yasser Arafat; title: United Nations speech on Zionism as racism (October 1, 1975) / Idi Amin Dada; title: "The battle for Miami" (January 1977) / Anita Bryant; title: Call for mass suicide (November 18, 1978) / James Jones; title: Testimony to the United States Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee on equal opportunity (April 21, 1981) / Phyllis Schlafly; title: "Crossing the Rubicon" (August 15, 1985) / P.W. Botha; title: Addresses to the nation on the Iran arms and Contra aid controversy (November 13, 1986, and March 4, 1987) / Ronald Reagan; title: Address to the martial units-Tianamen Square (June 9, 1989) / Deng Xiaoping; title: Arab Cooperation Council speech (February 24, 1990) / Saddam Hussein; title: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" (January 26, 1998) / Bill Clinton; title: Address to the nation on the NATO bombings (October 2, 2000) / Slobodan Milosevic; title: The 700 Club broadcast : 9/11 (September 13, 2001) / Jerry Falwell; title: "Weapons of mass destruction" (March 17, 2003) / George W. Bush; title: "O American people, I address these words to you regarding the best way of avoiding another Manhattan" (October 29, 2004) / Osama bin Laden; title: "We are rising up against the empire" (September 20, 2006) / Hugo Chavez.