Chapter 23: Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights.Chapter 21: General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country.Chapter 20: Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism.Chapter 19: Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Group’s Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel.Chapter 18: Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty.Chapter 17: Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists.Chapter 16: President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts.Chapter 15: Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July.Chapter 14: Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg.Chapter 13: Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day.Chapter 12: Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument.Chapter 11: Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness.Chapter 10: Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee.Chapter 9: Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons.This book provides a wealth of valuable examples of great oratory for writers, speakers, and history aficionados. Gore decision that changed the landscape of American politics in our time.Įditor William Safire has collected a diverse range of speeches from both ancient and modern times, from people of many different backgrounds and political affiliations, and from people on both sides of history’s greatest battles and events. George Patton inspiring Allied troops on the eve of D-Day to Pericles’s impassioned eulogy for fallen Greek soldiers during the Peloponnesian War and from Jesus of Nazareth’s greatest sermons to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fiery speech in response to the Bush vs. Speeches in Lend Me Your Ears span a broad stretch of history, from Gen. This third edition of the bestselling collection of classic and modern oratory offers numerous examples of the greatest speeches ever delivered-from the ancient world to the modern. ![]() From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, this collection of speeches is “the most valuable kind of book, the kind that benefits mind and heart” (Peggy Noonan).
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