I dare say
Subtitle: inside stories of the world's most powerful speeches
By: Ferdie Addis
Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; Reader's Digest
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606524701; 9781606524718; 9781606524725
Subjects: World history; World politics; Speeches, addresses; Sources
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 8th-1st centuries BC / the classical orators; title: c. AD 26 The Sermon on the Mount / Jesus of Nazareth; title: 1096 The Council of Clermont / Pope Urban II; title: 1653 Dismissing the rump of Parliament / Oliver Cromwell; title: 1794 The political philosophy of terror / Maximilien Robespierre; title: 1796 Farewell address / George Washington; title: 1814 Farewell to the Old Guard / Napoleon Bonaparte; title: 1851 Ar'n't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth; title: 1863 The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln; title: 1877 I will fight no more forever / Chief Joseph; title: 1913 Freedom or death? / Emmeline Pankhurst; title: 1916 There is no salvation for India / Mohandas Gandhi; title: 1918 The Fourteen Points / Woodrow Wilson; title: 1925 Scopes trial / Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan; title: 1939 Farewell to baseball / Lou Gehrig; title: 1939 First soldier of the German Reich / Adolf Hitler; title: 1940 Three wartime speeches / Winston Churchill; title: 1941 Anniversary celebration of the October Revolution / Joseph Stalin; title: 1941 A date which will live in infamy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt; title: 1944 Speech before D-Day / George S. Patton; title: 1947 A tryst with destiny / Jawaharlal Nehru; title: 1949 The Chinese people have stood up / Mao Zedong; title: 1960 Wind of change / Harold Macmillan; title: 1961 Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy; title: 1963 I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: 1974 Today I am an inquisitor / Barbara Jordan; title: 1987 Tear down this wall / Ronald Reagan; title: 1990 Freedom from fear / Aung San Suu Kyi; title: 1992 A whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher; title: 1994 Let freedom reign / Nelson Mandela; title: 1995 Women's rights are human rights / Hillary Rodham Clinton; title: 1996 American family values / Christopher Reeve; title: 2001 Declaration of war on the United States / Osama bin Laden; title: 2002 The axis of evil / George W. Bush; title: 2008 Victory speech / Barack Obama.