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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| 'The doctrine of the strenuous life' (1899) | |
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| 'I believe in a British Empire and I do not believe in a Little England' (1903) | |
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| 'The men with the muck-rakes' (1906) | |
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| 'The People's Budget' (1909) | |
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| 'We are in for rough weather' (1909) | |
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| 'With the new age, we shall show a new spirit' (1910) | |
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| 'The new nationalism' (1910) | |
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| 'This last fight for human freedom' (1912) | |
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| 'Ulster is asking to be let alone' (1914) | |
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| 'The sunshine of Socialism' (1914) | |
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| 'The great pinnacle of sacrifice' (1914) | |
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| 'You have not seen the last of me' (1914) | |
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| 'There are women who never thought to envy men their manhood' (1914) | |
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| 'Ireland unfree shall never be at peace' (1915) | |
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| 'There is no salvation for India' (1916) | |
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| Proclamation of the Irish Republic 'Ireland summons her children to the flag' (1916) | |
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| 'In Ireland alone, in this twentieth century, is loyalty held to be a crime' (1916) | |
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| 'The world must be made safe for democracy' (1917) | |
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| 'A new phase in the history of Russia begins' (1917) | |
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| 'We need an army' (1918) | |
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| 'While there is a lower class, I am in it' (1918) | |
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| 'A fit country for heroes to live in' (1918) | |
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| 'American I was born' (1919) | |
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| 'Man will see the truth' (1919) | |
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| 'A man as low and mean as I can picture' (1919) | |
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| 'The eyes of the whole Empire are on Ireland today' (1921) | |
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| 'Non-violence is the first article of my faith' (1922) | |
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| 'A message to every land where the Jewish race is scattered' (1922) | |
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| 'The sounds of England' (1924) | |
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| 'The life of the Negro race has been a life of tragedy' (1926) | |
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| 'I am never be guilty, never' (1927) | |
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| 'Rugged individualism' (1928) | |
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| 'The nation has to be mobilized' (1930) | |
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| 'We are not on trial' (1930) | |
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| 'Either we do it - or they crush us' (1931) | |
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| 'An indomitable aggressive spirit' (1932) | |
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| 'The bomber will always get through' (1932) | |
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| 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' (1933) | |
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| 'The supreme justiciar of the German people' (1934) | |
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| 'Italy! Italy! Entirely and universally Fascist!' (1935) | |
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| 'England again dares to be great' (1935) | |
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| 'The forces of selfishness and lust for power met their match' (1936) | |
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| 'The locust years' (1936) | |
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| 'I shall always trust the instincts of our democratic people' (1936) | |
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| 'The Jews carry Palestine in their hearts' (1936) | |
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| 'I have determined to renounce the Throne' (1936) | |
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| 'The House today is a theatre which is being watched by the whole world' (1936) | |
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| 'God Save the King' (1936) | |
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| 'I stake my life' (1937) | |
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| 'The oppression is growing' (1937) | |
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| 'My patience is now at an end' (1938) | |
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| 'Peace for our time' (1938) | |
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| 'A total and unmitigated defeat' (1938) | |
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| 'Is this an attempt to dominate the world by force?' (1939) | |
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| 'This country is at war with Germany' (1939) | |
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| 'In the name of God, go' (1940) | |
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| 'Sacrifice the seals of office' (1940) | |
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| 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat' (1940) | |
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| 'Be ye men of valour' (1940) | |
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| 'This was their finest hour' (1940) | |
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| 'The flame of French resistance' (1940) | |
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| 'This little steamer' (1940) | |
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| 'The arsenal of democracy' (1940) | |
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| 'The four freedoms' (1941) | |
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| 'A grave danger bangs over our country' (1941) | |
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| 'The final solution' (1942) | |
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| 'Give me your children' (1942) | |
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| 'We will stand and fight here' (1942) | |
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| 'The vision of such an Ireland' (1943) | |
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| 'That son of a bitch Patton again' (1943-4) | |
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| 'Obliteration is not a justifiable act of war' (1944) | |
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| 'Our deep moral dependence' (1945) | |
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| The 'iron curtain' (1946) | |
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| 'Our policy is directed against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos' (1947) | |
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| 'The noble mansion of free India' (1947) | |
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| 'The light has gone out of our lives' (1948) | |
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| 'I have in my hand. . .' (1950) | |
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| 'The agony and the sweat' (1950) | |
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| 'There is only one hope for mankind' (1951) | |
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| 'Let's talk sense to the American people' (1952) | |
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| 'A theft from those who hunger' (1953) | |
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| 'The motion of destiny' (1953) | |
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| 'History will absolve me' (1953) | |
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| 'Shall we choose death?' (1954) | |
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| 'There comes a time when people get tired' (1955) | |
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| 'We must abolish the cult of the individual' (1956) | |
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| 'We have to act up to different standards' (1956) | |
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| 'Naked into the conference chamber' (1957) | |
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| 'We have now come to a fateful hour' (1959) | |
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| 'An ugly society, a vulgar society, a meretricious society' (1959) | |
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| 'The wind of change' (1960) | |
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| 'Do not reject this man' (1960) | |
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| 'A new frontier' (1960) | |
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| 'The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans' (1961) | |
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| 'That man was Eichmann' (1961) | |
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| 'We will fight, fight and fight again' (1961) | |
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| 'The brotherhood of man' (1961) | |
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| 'Duty - Honor - Country' (1962) | |
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| 'The end of a thousand years of history' (1962) | |
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| 'Ich bin ein Berliner' (1963) | |
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| 'Never glad confident morning again' (1963) | |
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| 'I have a dream' (1963) | |
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| 'The white heat of technology' (1963) | |
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| 'Let us continue' (1963) | |
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| 'An ideal for which I am prepared to die' (1964) | |
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| 'The Great Society' (1964) | |
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| 'Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice' (1964) | |
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| 'A time for choosing' (1964) | |
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| 'We shall overcome' (1965) | |
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| 'Our generation has a dream' (1965) | |
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| 'This is the goal' (1966) | |
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| 'A tiny ripple of hope' (1966) | |
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| 'I shall not seek nor will I accept nomination as your president' (1968) | |
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| 'I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood"' (1968) | |
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| 'The time has come for an honest government' (1968) | |
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| 'A woman's civil right' (1969) | |
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| 'Millions will rejoice' (1971) | |
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| 'A press which is half free' (1974) | |
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| 'Au revoir' (1974) | |
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| 'Let me give you my vision' (1975) | |
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| 'The red flame of Socialist courage' (1975) | |
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| 'What is the joy about?' (1978) | |
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| 'I have promised nobody' (1978) | |
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| 'Home Thoughts from Abroad' (1979) | |
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| 'The dream shall never die' (1980) | |
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| 'We are reaping the whirlwind of all our yesterdays' (1981) | |
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| 'The Falklands Factor' (1982) | |
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| 'Our neighbours are indeed like us' (1982) | |
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| 'I warn you' (1983) | |
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| 'We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing' (1983) | |
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| 'The great she-elephant, she who must be obeyed' (1984) | |
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| 'A monstrous carbuncle' (1984) | |
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| 'Let us make a vow to the dead' (1984) | |
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| 'Make this nation remember how futures are built' (1984) | |
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| 'The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted' (1986) | |
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| 'Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?' (1987) | |
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| 'We are fighting for the survival of our culture' (1987) | |
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| 'Now is the time' (1988) | |
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| 'The frontiers of the State' (1988) | |
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| 'A contaminated moral environment' (1990) | |
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| 'Our march to freedom is irreversible' (1990) | |
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| 'A conflict of loyalty' (1990) | |
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| 'I cannot hand away powers lent to me' (1991) | |
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| 'What is my single life worth?' (1991) | |
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