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| An Introductory Address | |
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| Memorials and Patriotic Speeches | |
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| Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons | |
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| Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee | |
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| Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness | |
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| Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument | |
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| Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day | |
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| Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg | |
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| Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July | |
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| President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts | |
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| Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists | |
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| Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty | |
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| Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Group's Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel | |
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| Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism | |
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| General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country | |
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| War and Revolution Speeches | |
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| Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights | |
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| Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada | |
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| Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution | |
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| An Indian Chief Pledges Help | |
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| General Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection | |
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| Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions | |
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| Revolutionist Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish | |
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| Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against France's Enemies | |
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| Garibaldi Prepares Italy's Guerrillas for Battle | |
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| Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate | |
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| Chief Joseph Surrenders | |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress | |
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| Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship | |
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| Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia | |
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| Hitler Declares Germany's Intentions | |
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| Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task | |
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| Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitler's Troops | |
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan | |
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| Senator Eugene McCarthy Crystallizes Dissent by Denouncing the War in Vietnam | |
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| Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands | |
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| Tributes and Eulogies | |
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| Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar | |
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| Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette | |
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| Henry Lee Remembers George Washington | |
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| Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams | |
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| Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog | |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns | |
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| Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man | |
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| Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll Speaks at His Brother's Grave | |
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| James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield | |
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| Jane Addams Praises George Washington | |
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| Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln | |
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| Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson | |
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| George Bernard Shaw Salutes His Friend Albert Einstein | |
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| India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Delivers the Eulogy for Gandhi | |
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| John F. Kennedy, in Praise of Robert Frost, Celebrates the Arts in America | |
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| Senator Robert F. Kennedy Speaks after the Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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| Electronic Journalist Eric Sevareid Remembers Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun | |
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| President Richard M. Nixon Defines "Politician" in Eulogizing Senator Everett Dirksen | |
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| President Jimmy Carter Salutes His Good Friend Hubert H. Humphrey | |
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| Senator Daniel P. Moynihan Spoofs Abstractionist Art at a Dedication Ceremony | |
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| Secretary Jack Kemp, Saluting Winston Churchill, Applies the Munich Analogy to Kuwait | |
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| President Boris Yeltsin of Russia Eulogizes Victims of Communism's Final Power Play | |
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| Debates and Argumentation | |
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| Cicero Rails against Catiline and His Conspiracies | |
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| A Youthful William Pitt the Elder Debates the Merits of Age | |
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| William Pitt the Younger and Charles Fox Disagree on Napoleon's Offers of Peace | |
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| Senator Daniel Webster Backs the Union in His Reply to Senator Hayne | |
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| Senator John C. Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism of President Andrew Jackson | |
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| Abolitionist Charles Sumner Excoriates Two Senate Colleagues on the Issue of "Bloody Kansas" | |
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| Senator Stephen Douglas Differs with Lincoln on the "Popular Sovereignty" Decision on Slavery | |
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| John Cabell Breckinridge Disputes Colonel E. D. Baker's Charge of Treason | |
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| Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations | |
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| Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Appeals to the League of Nations to Stop Aggression | |
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| Candidates Nixon and Kennedy Meet in the First Televised Presidential Debate | |
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| Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen Clash on Qualifications for the Presidency | |
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| Trials | |
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| Job Pleads the Record of a Good Life against God's Inexplicable Punishment | |
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| Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms | |
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| Sir Thomas More Defends Himself against Charges of Treason | |
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| Robert Emmet Demands That Posterity Be the Judge of His Irish Patriotism | |
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| Novelist Emile Zola Turns His Libel Defense into an Appeal to Free Falsely Convicted Dreyfus | |
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| Antiwar Dissident Eugene V. Debs Addresses the Court before Sentencing | |
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| Gandhi Defends His Beliefs | |
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| Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers a Supporter of Capital Punishment | |
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| Soviet Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky Defies His Judges before Sentencing | |
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| Gallows and Farewell Speeches | |
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| Socrates, Condemned to Death, Addresses His Judges | |
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| Charles I and, Later, His Regicide Speak from the Scaffold | |
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| Rebel Richard Rumbold, on the Gallows, Attacks Booted and Spurred Privilege | |
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| Revolutionist Robespierre Delivers His Final Speech | |
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| President George Washington Delivers His Farewell | |
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| John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about His Death Sentence | |
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| King Edward VIII Abdicates His Throne | |
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| Yankee Great Lou Gehrig Bids Farewell to Baseball | |
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| General Douglas MacArthur Moves Congress with "Old Soldiers Never Die" | |
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| President Dwight D. Eisenhower Takes His Leave with a Surprising Theme | |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson Halts the Bombing in Vietnam and Drops His Own Political Bomb | |
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| Speaker of the House James Wright Resigns as "Propitiation" for Ill Will | |
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| Sermons | |
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| Jesus of Nazareth Delivers the Sermon on the Mount | |
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| Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds | |
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| John Wyclif Gives the Sixth Sunday Gospel after Easter | |
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| Religious Scourge Savonarola Demands Repentance from the Citizens of Florence | |
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| John Calvin Preaches on Suffering Persecution | |
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| Calvinist Jonathan Edwards Promises Hellfire and Damnation to the Sinful | |
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| Methodist John Wesley Asserts "Free Grace" to Deny the Implacability of Fate | |
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| Clergyman John Witherspoon Couples Religion with Politics | |
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| Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion | |
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| Bishop James Madison Speaks on Divine Providence toward America | |
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| Lincoln, in His Second Inaugural, Seeks to Heal the Spiritual Wounds of War | |
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| Preacher Henry Ward Beecher Speaks of Visions | |
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| Evangelist Billy Sunday Preaches a Revival Sermon | |
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| Bishop Fulton John Sheen Makes a Wartime Plea | |
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| Theologian Karl Barth Preaches Deliverance by Faith | |
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| Rabbi Louis Finkelstein Delivers a Sermon in the White House | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Inveighs against the Sinfulness of Communism | |
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| Billy Graham Preaches about Salvation through Jesus | |
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| Inspirational Speeches | |
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| Chemist Louis Pasteur Praises the Rise of Scientific Education | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt Blasts Ignoble Ease and Advocates the Strenuous Life | |
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| Mark Twain Reveals Stage Fright | |
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| Branch Rickey Discovers the Quality That Makes a Ballplayer Great | |
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| Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Acknowledges a Ninetieth-Birthday Tribute | |
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| John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Sets Forth His Family's Creed | |
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| Nobel Laureate William Faulkner Charges Writers with the Duty to Help Humanity Prevail | |
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| President John F. Kennedy Assures West Germany of America's Steadfastness | |
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| Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Ennobles the Civil Rights Movement at the Lincoln Memorial | |
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| Senator Everett Dirksen Extols the Marigold | |
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| Lectures and Instructive Speeches | |
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| Philosopher-Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Defines the Duties of the American Scholar | |
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| Edgar Allan Poe Presents His Theory of Beauty and Poetry | |
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| Mark Twain Stuns the Littery World by Spoofing Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes to Their Faces | |
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| William Lyon Phelps Praises the Owning of Books | |
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| Broadcaster John Hilton Talks about Talking | |
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| Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Calls Up the Image of "the Floo Floo Bird" | |
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| Secretary of State Dean Acheson Explains Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union | |
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| Senator Henry Jackson Analyzes International Terrorism | |
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| Speeches of Social Responsibility | |
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| British Statesman William Pitt the Younger Urges Abolition of the Slave Trade | |
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| Lord Byron Puts Poetic Passion into His Defense of Labor's Rights | |
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| Social Reformer Maria Stewart Advocates Education for Black Women | |
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| Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pleads for Women's Rights | |
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| Evangelist Sojourner Truth Speaks for Women's Rights | |
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| Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery | |
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| Chief Seattle Cautions Americans to Deal Justly with His People | |
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| Susan B. Anthony Argues for Women's Rights | |
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| Governor Huey Long of Louisiana Proposes to End the Depression by Redistributing Wealth | |
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| Labor's John L. Lewis Defends His Union's Right to Strike | |
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| FDR Reminds the Daughters of the American Revolution about Their Lineage | |
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| Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort for Having Taken "the Easy Way" | |
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| Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch Offers America's First Plan to Control Nuclear Weapons | |
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| Senator Robert Taft Opposes War Crimes Trials as Ex post facto Law | |
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| Governor Kissin' Jim Folsom of Alabama Startles the South with a Concern for the Negro | |
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| Senator Margaret Chase Smith Issues a "Declaration of Conscience" against Senator Joseph McCarthy | |
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| Malcolm X Exhorts Afro-Americans to Confront White Oppression | |
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| Holocaust Witness Elie Wiesel Asks President Reagan to Reconsider a Visit to a German Cemetery | |
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| Astronomer Carl Sagan Contemplates the Potential Self-destruction of the Earth | |
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| Playwright-Dissident Vaclav Havel Assumes the Presidency of Czechoslovakia | |
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| Media Speeches | |
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| Playwright-Journalist-Diplomat Clare Boothe Luce Criticizes the American Press | |
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| FCC's Newton Minow Excoriates Broadcasters for Failing to Serve the Public Interest | |
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| Historian Daniel J. Boorstin Examines the Coverage of Dissent | |
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| Vice-President Spiro Agnew Castigates the Media | |
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| Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times Discusses Business and the Press | |
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| A. M. Rosenthal of the New York Times Defines Freedom of the Press | |
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| Television Journalist Ted Koppel Reports on the Newsworthiness of the Ten Commandments | |
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| Novelist Norman Mailer Slams Censorship and Literary Cowardice | |
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| Radio and Television Journalist Daniel Schorr, at Seventy-five, Makes a Few "Confessions" | |
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| Author Salman Rushdie Cries Out from a Life "Trapped inside a Metaphor" | |
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| Political Speeches | |
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| Demosthenes Attacks His Accuser | |
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| John Winthrop Defines the Mission of Government Officials | |
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| Edmund Burke Makes a Case for Conciliation with America | |
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| Benjamin Franklin Addresses the Federal Convention | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Appeals for Unity at His Inauguration | |
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| Lord Macaulay Presses the Need for Strong Leadership to Gain Popular Support | |
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| William Cobbett Heaps Scorn on Opponents of His Bill to Reduce Child Labor | |
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| Senator Henry Clay Calls for the Great Compromise to Avert Civil War | |
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| Karl Marx Calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat | |
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| Lincoln, in His First Inaugural, Asserts the Necessity of Majority Rule | |
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| Representative J. Proctor Knott Uses Satire to Sink a Land Grant Bill | |
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| British Conservative Benjamin Disraeli Speaks Up for Tory Principles | |
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| Kalakaua, Last King of Hawaii, Assumes the Throne | |
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| Prime Minister Gladstone Argues for Toleration and the Rights of Freethinkers in the House of Commons | |
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| Democratic Candidate William Jennings Bryan Delivers His "Cross of Gold" Speech | |
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| Claude Bowers Conjures the Ghosts of Democrats Past to Keynote a Convention | |
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Instills Confidence in a Depression-Racked Nation | |
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| Winston Churchill Warns the West of the Soviet "Iron Curtain" | |
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| Judge Noah Sweat of Mississippi Shows How to Straddle a Fence with Satiric Flair | |
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| Hubert H. Humphrey Divides the Democratic Party on the Urgent Issue of Civil Rights | |
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| President Harry Truman Whistle-stops the Nation, Blasting the "Do-Nothing" Congress | |
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| Adlai Stevenson Makes the Model of a Concession Speech | |
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| Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a "Secret Speech," Tears Down Stalin's Reputation | |
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| President John F. Kennedy, in His Inaugural, Takes Up the Torch for a New Generation | |
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| President Charles de Gaulle Offers Self-determination to the Algerian People | |
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| Barry Goldwater Ignites the Conservative Movement | |
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| President Richard M. Nixon Rallies "the Silent Majority" to Support the War in Vietnam | |
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| Representative Barbara Jordan Makes the Constitutional Case for the Impeachment of Nixon | |
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| President Gerald Ford Takes Office after Nixon's Resignation | |
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| Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat Travels to Jerusalem to Address Israel's Knesset | |
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| Senator Edward M. Kennedy Exhorts Fellow Democrats to Hold Fast to Liberalism | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Foresees the Crisis of Communism | |
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| Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick Blasts the "San Francisco Democrats" | |
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| Labour's Neil Kinnock Excoriates Mrs. Thatcher's Toryism | |
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| Henry Kissinger Warns against the Reemergence of Isolationism | |
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| George Bush Accepts the Republican Nomination | |
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| President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His Fault | |
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| Commencement Speeches | |
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| President Woodrow Wilson Calls the Midshipmen to Their Duty | |
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| Editor William Allen White Calls the Prewar Generation to Its Duty | |
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| Economist Arthur Burns Shares Three Discoveries with Young Israelis | |
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| Humorist Art Buchwald Speaks to Law Graduates | |
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| Language Maven William Safire Denounces the Telephone as the Subverter of Good English | |
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| Financier Felix G. Rohatyn Examines a Fragile Economy | |
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| Governor Mario Cuomo Speaks over the Heads of the Graduates to the Parents | |
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| Labor's Lane Kirkland Rejects the Labels "Liberal" and "Conservative" | |
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| Professor Jacob Neusner Defines the Social Contract between Teacher and Student | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |