The world's great speeches

Copeland, Lewis (Author). Lamm, Lawrence W. (Added Author).

Summary: 278 speeches from ancient Greece to 1970, some of the included are: Napoleon's farewell; Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech; Washington's farewell; John C. Calhoun's last speech in the Senate; William Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech; Churchill's "Blood, sweat, and tears", "Finest hour", and "Iron curtain" speeches; MacArthur's "Old soldiers never die" speech; Kennedy's inaugural address; Eisenhower's farewell address.

Item details

ISBN: 0486204685
ISBN: 9780486204680
Physical Description: print
xxi, 842 p. ; 21 cm.
Edition: 3rd enl. ed.
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications, c1973.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I Great Speeches of Earlier Times -- I. Greece and Rome -- Pericles/ Funeral Oration -- Socrates/ On His Condemnation to Death -- Isocrates/ On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia -- Demosthenes/ On the Crown -- The Second Oration Against Philip -- Cato, the Elder/ In Support of the Oppian Law -- Hannibal/ To His Soldiers -- Cicero/ First Oration Against Catiline -- The Fourth Philippic -- Catiline/ To the Conspirators -- To His Troops -- Julius Ceasar/ On the Treatment of the Conspirators -- Cato, the Younger/ The Catilinarian Conspirators -- Mark Antony/ Oration on the Dead Body of Julius Caesar.