I have a dream
Subtitle: inspiring words and thoughts from history's greatest leaders
By: by Terry Breverton
Publisher: Quercus; Quercus Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780857386205; 9781848661349
Subjects: English Quotations
Description: An anthology of history's most inspiring words and thoughts from history's greatest leaders from all ages and nations.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Gettysburg was immortal / Charles Francis Adams; title: Freedom, independence, peace; title: Man, therefore, was not made for himself alone; title: Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice / John Quincy Adams; title: A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested / Samuel Adams; title: Against crowning Demosthenes (against Ctesiphon) / Aeschines; title: It is the moment for action / King Albert I of Belgium; title: The meaning of crucifixion / St. Albertus Magnus; title: To his mutinous troops / Alexander the Great; title: Long live Chile! / Dr Salvador Isabelino Allende; title: What is patriotism? / Fisher Ames; title: Give us the truth! / Ross C. Anderson; title: The sea of life / St Anselm of Canterbury; title: Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote? / Susan Brownell Anthony; title: The lessons of the past will not be forgotten / Alexander Aris; title: All hearts are filled with grief and horror / Chester Alan Arthur; title: ...this war has been forced upon us / Herbert Henry Asquith; title: When Adam delved and Eve span / John Ball; title: It is not enough that one should desire to be free / Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave; title: The torments of hell / The Venerable Bede; title: ...cast down but not destroyed / Henry Ward Beecher; title: To speak in this place of horror / Pope Benedict XVI; title: Why another crusade? / St. Bernard of Clairvaux; title: It will take us very many years to live down what we have done / Aneurin Bevan; title: Women become the victims of a culture of exclusion and male dominance / Benazir Bhutto; title: Iron and blood; title: We Germans fear God and nothing else in the world! / Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismark; title: My warriors fell around me / Black Hawk.; title: ...The triple yoke of ignorance, tyranny and vice / Simón Bolívar; title: Here is a man who led us through all hazards / Jacques-Benigne Bossuet; title: On this spot we must either conquer, or die with glory / Boudica; title: The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land / John Bright; title: This is your time. Their time is done / Herbert Paul Brooks; title: Our whole punishments smell of blood / Henry Brougham; title: ...mingle my blood further with the blood of my children / John Brown; title: Cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan; title: Are they now, do you think, better men than they were? / Chief Buckongahelas of the Lenape; title: American's are asking, "Who attacked our country?" / George W. Bush; title: Mr. Hastings has no refuge here; title: Slavery they can have anywhere / Edmund Burke; title: Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? / George Gordon Byron; title: There was a time when there was no earth, no sun, no moon, no stars / Daniel William Cahill; title: They make a solitude and call it peace / Calgacus; title: Enduring persecution for Christ / John Calvin; title: I am well aware, soldiers, that words cannot inspire courage / Catiline; title: Rome should be the capital of Italy / Count of Cavour; title: I had to try / César Estrada Chávez; title: ...an iron curtain has descended across the continent; title: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat; title: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few; title: This was our finest hour; title: We shall fight on the beaches / Sir Winston Churchill; title: The first oration against Verres / Marcus Cicero; title: ...Let us determine to meet the call of patriotic duty in every time of our country's danger or need / Stephen Grover Cleveland; title: Acres of diamonds / Russell Herman Conwell; title: Let my head, carried through Paris, be a rallying sign for all the friends of law / Charlotte Corday; title: Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?; title: Let God be judge between you and me! / Oliver Cromwell; title: Nazis' aim is slavery / Édouard Daladier; title: We must dare, dare again, always dare / Georges Jacques Danton; title: I have spoken about the war / Clarence Seward Darrow; title: At the Belfast encampment, Maine; title: On withdrawing from the Union / Jefferson Finis Davis; title: The oration on the crown; title: The second oration against Philip; title: The third oration against Philip / Demosthenes; title: It is I who call my brothers to liberty! / Camille Desmoulins; title: Amid the obstructions and the cynicism of the materialistic age he never lost his hold on the "ideal" / John Dillon; title: Assassination has never changed the history of the world... / Benjamin Disraeli; title: ...did John Brown fail?; title: What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass; title: Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards; title: The tide has turned / General Dwight D. Eisenhower; title: The exchequer...is empty...the jewels pawned / Sir John Eliot; title: I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too; title: My heart was never set on any worldly goods / Queen Elizabeth I; title: Let no man write my epitaph / Robert Emmet; title: The jubilee of America is turned into mourning / Edward Everett; title: When will I be blown up? / William Faulkner.; title: A whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher; title: ...a war that is finished / Gerald Ford; title: For the birds / St. Francis of Assisi; title: I agree to this Constitution with all its faults / Benjamin Franklin; title: ...shortly we have either beaten the enemy, or we never see one another again / King Frederick II; title: ...mentally ill people in Germany have been deliberately killed and more will be killed in the future / Blessed Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen; title: I believe that in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic struggle for freedom than ours; title: Non-violence is the first article of my faith / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; title: I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death; title: This people is its own master / Giuseppe Garibaldi; title: On the death of John Brown / William Lloyd Garrison; title: I believe in America / Elizabeth Glaser; title: Now, people rise up and let the storm break loose! / Paul Joseph Goebbels; title: Remember the rights of the savage / William Ewart Gladstone; title: Death with honour is preferable to life with ignominy / Gnaeus Julius Agricola; title: Kill them, kill them in abundance, until they have had enough / Henri Joseph Eugene Gouraud; title: It was the act of a coward, who raises his arm to strike, but has not courage to give the blow / Henry Grattan; title: The loss of liberty, to a generous mind, is worse than death / Andrew Hamilton; title: Address to his soldiers before the Battle of Ticinus; title: Encouraging his soldiers to cross The Alps / Hannibal Barca; title: I believe that patriotism has been blown into a higher and holier flame in many hearts / Benjamin Harrison; title: We live in a contaminated moral environment / Václav Havel; title: Give me liberty or give me death! / Patrick Henry.; title: In September 1939 I assured you that neither force of arms nor time would overcome Germany; title: My patience now is at an end!; title: Word and bread! / Adolf Hitler; title: ...if there is a culprit here, it is not my own son,; title: it is I! / Victor-Marie Hugo; title: What is an American? / Harold Leclair Ickes; title: He is the gentlest memory of our world / Robert Green Ingersoll; title: Panegyricus; title: on the Union of Greece to resist Persia / Isocrates; title: I advance with obedience to the work / Thomas Jefferson; title: The eight beatitudes; title: The sermon on the Mount / Jesus of Nazareth; title: In this place of memories, the mind and heart and soul feel an extreme need for silence / Pope John Paul II; title: The American promise / Lyndon Baines Johnson; title: From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever; title: Words do not pay for my dead people / Chief Joseph; title: ...the cause endures / Edward Moore Kennedy; title: Artists are not engineers of the soul; title: Ask not what your country can do for you; title: Ich bin ein Berliner; title: We choose to go to the Moon / John Fitzgerald Kennedy; title: ...it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in / Robert Francis Kennedy; title: They died, but they were never slaves / Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky; title: We must abolish the cult of the individual once and for all / Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev; title: I have a dream; title: I have been to the mountaintop / Martin Luther King; title: For the power of the people!; title: Long live the world socialist revolution! / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; title: Mr. Speaker, did you know I am a military hero?; title: The Gettysburg address; title: With malice toward none, with charity to all / Abraham Lincoln; title: A dark day for humanity; title: Germany expected to find a lamb and found a lion; title: I am certain that the nation will shrink from no sacrifice; title: The nation is prepared for every sacrifice so long as it has leadership; title: Today we wage the most devastating war earth has ever seen / David Lloyd George; title: Logan's lament / Chief Logan of the Mingo; title: Every man a king / Huey Pierce Long; title: We are going to rule not by the peace of guns and bayonets but by a peace of heart and the will / Patrice Émery Lumumba; title: I neither can nor will retract anything / Martin Luther; title: Duty, honor, country / Douglas MacArthur; title: The wind of change / Maurice Harold Macmillan; title: The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X; title: It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die; title: Let there be justice for all!; title: No easy walk to freedom / Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela; title: In his own defence / Jean-Paul Marat; title: Oration over the dead body of Caesar / Mark Anthony; title: What must be done? / George Catlett Marshall; title: I am too moved to speak / Tomás Garrigue Masaryk; title: Of a malignant tongue / Jean Baptiste Massillon; title: This war has been forced upon us / Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov; title: The ten commandments / Moses; title: Do not regret my fate; title: The French people, free and respected by the whole world, shall give to Europe a glorious peace; title: Your country has a right to expect of you great things / Napoléon Bonaparte; title: The light has gone out of our lives / Jawarharlal Nehru; title: First they came for the communists / Pastor Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller; title: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... / Brigadier-General John Nixon.; title: Yes we can! / Barack Hussein Obama; title: Equal justice for Ireland / Daniel O'Connell; title: There are women lying at death's door... / Emmeline Pankhurst; title: Americans love a winner / General George Smith Patton; title: Through a glass, darkly; title: To an unknown God / Paul the Apostle; title: Funeral oration, on those who died in the war; title: Third oration; title: In defence of himself / Pericles; title: You came to the battlefield at a crucial hour / General John Joseph Pershing; title: If we must fall, let us fall like men; title: The kingdom is undone!; title: ...you can not conquer America / William Pitt; title: Europe is not to be saved by any single man; title: It was conceived in injustice / William Pitt; title: Lafayette is dead! / Seargent Smith Prentiss; title: Tremble all ye oppressors of the world! / Richard Price; title: To his army before the Battle of Ticinus / Publius Cornelius Scipio; title: To his mutinous troops / Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus; title: The cry of all England / John Pym; title: I thank my God heartily that He hath brought me into the light to die / Sir Walter Raleigh; title: I fear no man, for I am a Creek warrior / Chief Red Eagle; title: We gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return / Red Jacket; title: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!; title: The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave / Ronald Wilson Reagan; title: Death is the commencement of immortality!; title: Our blood flows for the cause of humanity; title: Terror is nothing else than swift, severe, indomitable justice / Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre; title: Froth with terrifying power over people's lives / Anita Roddick.; title: A date which will live in infamy; title: Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere; title: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself; title: We are now in this war / Franklin Delano Roosevelt; title: No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours; title: ...not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt; title: The problem of peace / Albert Schweitzer; title: Do not imagine that those whom thou conquerest can love thee / Scythian Ambassador; title: On the disabilities of the Jews; title: On the Irish as "aliens" / Richard Lalor Sheil; title: The secret beyond science / Goldwin Smith; title: In his own defence; title: On being condemned to death; title: On being declared guilty / Socrates; title: What is the joy about? / Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn; title: A standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden / Charles Edward Maurice Spencer; title: The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a just war / Joseph Stalin; title: The cornerstone speech / Alexander Hamilton Stephens; title: In the name of the Indian chiefs and warriors; title: My forefathers were warriors / Chief Tecumseh; title: Smile at each other / Mother Teresa; title: ...our people are sacrificed on the altar of prejudice in the capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell; title: ...it is no great effort, at this day, to add the sacrifice of my life / Theobald Wolf Tone; title: Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action; title: Harry S. Truman; title: Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth; title: We are without reproach / Jean Raphaël Adrien René Viviani; title: One-third of the population of the south is of the negro race / Booker Taliaferro Washington.; title: I retire from the great theater of action; title: Preventing the revolt of his officers; title: The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us / George Washington; title: An American no longer?; title: It was sealed in blood; title: Second reply to Hayne / Daniel Webster; title: Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred / Eliezer Wiesel; title: How can we bear to think of such a scene as this? / William Wilberforce; title: The hour is grave / Kaiser Wilhelm II; title: This I know: a successful resistance is a revolution, not a rebellion! / John Wilkes; title: ...there is nothing new under the sun / Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard; title: If you will not contend for glory, you must fight for life / King William I; title: It is a war against all nations / Thomas Woodrow Wilson; title: The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die / General James Wolfe; title: And thus speaketh holy writ and no man can disprove it / John Wycliffe; title: I swear that Dreyfus is innocent / Émile François Zola.