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Title:
Speeches that changed the world / with an introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Author:
Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- author of introduction.
Publication Information:
New York : Quercus, [2015]

©2010.
Call Number:
PN6122 .S645 2014
ISBN:
9781623654528
Physical Description:
224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Blessed are the poor in spirit / Turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque / I have the heart and stomach of a king / I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown / In the name of God, go! / A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils / We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists / Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell / Government of the people, by the people, for the people / Are women persons? / I am here as a soldier / Ireland unfree shall never be at peace / The world must be made safe for democracy / Power to the Soviets / I believe in the law of love / I have faith in the righteousness of our cause / The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ; A date which will live in infamy / My patience is now at an end ; I am from now on just first soldier of the Reich / Peace for our time / It is imperative that we agree to conclude the pact / Blood, toil, tears, and sweat ; We shall fight on the beaches ; This was their finest hour ; Never in the field of human conflict ; An iron curtain has descended / The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die / Perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nations / I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler / Enduring the unendurable / We are not only scientists; we are men, too / At the stroke of midnight hour...India will awake / I have just left your fighting sons in Korea / The cult of the individual / Ask not what your country can do for you ; Ich bin ein Berliner / I have a dream ; I've seen the promised land / An ideal for which I am prepared to die ; Free at last / You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree / Who are the kidnap victims? / There can be no whitewash at the White House / The special responsibility of the women of India / Hate, ignorance and evil / We accept to live with you in permanent peace / Our Polish freedom costs so much / Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! / Freedom of choice is a universal principle / We live in a contaminated moral environment / The most hunted person of the modern age / The perils of indifference / Today, our nation saw evil / Our struggle has reached a defining moment / To the stolen generations...I am sorry / America is a place where all things are possible
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