| 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 fo the Oppian Law |
| HANNIBAL |
| To His Soldiers |
| CICERO |
| First Oration Against Catiline |
| The Fourth Philippic |
| CATILINE |
| To the Conspirators |
| To His Troops |
| JULIUS CAESAR |
| On the Treatment of the Conspirators |
| "CATO, THE YOUNGER" |
| The Catilinarian Conspirators |
| MARK ANTONY |
| Oration on the Dead Body of Julius Caesar |
| II. The European Continent |
| ST. BERNARD |
| A Second Crusade |
| ST. FRANCIS |
| Sermon to the Birds |
| MARTIN LUTHER |
| Before the Diet of Worms |
| JOHN CALVIN |
| On Suffering Persecution |
| FREDERICK THE GREAT |
| Before Invading Silesia |
| Before the Battle of Leuthen |
| DESMOULINS |
| Advocating the Execution of Louis XVI |
| MIRABEAU |
| Against the Charge of Treason |
| DANTON |
| "To Dare Again, Ever to Dare!" |
| "Let France Be Free!" |
| MARAT |
| Defense Against the Charges |
| ROBESPIERRE |
| The Festival of the Supreme Being |
| NAPOLEON BONAPARTE |
| At the Beginning of the Italian Campaign |
| On Entering Milan |
| On Beginning the Russian Campaign |
| Farewell to the Old Guard |
| CARNOT |
| Against Imperialism |
| VICTOR HUGO |
| Voltaire |
| GIUSEPPE MAZZINI |
| To the Young Men of Italy |
| GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI |
| To His Soldiers |
| CAVOUR |
| Rome and Italy |
| LOUIS KOSSUTH |
| America's Welcome |
| LEON GAMBETTA |
| To the Delegate from Alsace |
| EMILE ZOLA |
| Appeal for Dreyfus |
| LEO XIII |
| Christian Democracy |
| OTTO VON BISMARCK |
| War and Armaments in Europe |
| BETHMANN-HOLLWEG |
| Germany and the War |
| KAISER WILHELM II |
| Address to the German P |
| JEAN JAURÈS |
| Last Speech |
| RENÉ VIVIANI |
| The Spirit of France |
| CARDINAL MERCIER |
| Coronation Day Sermon |
| GEORGES CLEMENCEAU |
| One Aim: Victory |
| ALEXANDER KERENSKY |
| To Workingmen and Soldiers |
| LEON TROTZKY |
| To the Red Army |
| NIKOLAI LENIN |
| The Dictatorship of the Proletariat |
| MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH |
| Napoleon |
| ARISTIDE BRIAND |
| Naval Disarmament |
| III. Great Britain and Ireland |
| OLIVER CROMWELL |
| On the Dissolution of Parliament |
| SIR ROBERT WALPOLE |
| On a Motion for His Removal |
| JOHN WESLEY |
| God's Love to Fallen Man |
| "WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM" |
| On the Right of Taxing America |
| EDMUND BURKE |
| Conciliation with America |
| Indictment of Warren Hastings |
| RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN |
| At the Trial of Warren Hastings |
| WILLIAM PITT |
| On His Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte |
| CHARLES JAMES FOX |
| On Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte |
| GEORGE CANNING |
| The Fall of Napoleon |
| THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY |
| On the Reform Bill |
| RICHARD COBDEN |
| The Effects of Protection on Agriculture |
| JOHN BRIGHT |
| "The "Trent" Affair" |
| BENJAMIN DISRAELI |
| Peace with Honor |
| WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE |
| On Domestic and Foreign Affairs |
| CARDINAL MANNING |
| Anti-Semitism |
| JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN |
| The British Empire |
| EMMELINE PANKHURST |
| Militant Suffragists |
| SIR EDWARD GREY |
| England's Position |
| DAVID LLOYD GEORGE |
| An Appeal to the Nation |
| ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR |
| The Fourth of July |
| JAMES RAMSAY MACDONALD |
| Peace |
| LADY ASTOR |
| Women in Politics |
| GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
| On His Seventieth Birthday |
| DANIEL O'CONNELL |
| Justice for Ireland |
| ROBERT EMMET |
| Protest Against Sentence as Traitor |
| CHARLES STEWART PARNELL |
| The Home Rule Bill |
| ARTHUR GRIFFITH |
| The Irish Free State |
| IV. The United States |
| JONATHAN EDWARDS |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angr |
| JOHN HANCOCK |
| The Boston Massacre |
| PATRICK HENRY |
| "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" |
| SAMUEL ADAMS |
| American Independence |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
| On the Faults of the Constitution |
| JAMES MADISON |
| The States and the Federal Government |
| JOHN MARSHALL |
| Justice and the Federal Constitution |
| ALEXANDER HAMILTON |
| The Federal Constitution |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON |
| Inaugural Address |
| Farewell Address |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| First Inaugural Address |
| GOUVERNEUR MORRIS |
| Alexander Hamilton |
| AMERICAN INDIANS |
| Red Jacket |
| Tecumseh |
| EDWARD EVERETT |
| & |
| VII. Domestic Affairs in the United States |
| WILLIAM GREEN |
| Modern Trade Unionism |
| ALFRED E. SMITH |
| Religious Prejudice and Politics |
| FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA |
| American Labor |
| CLARENCE S. DARROW |
| A Plea for Mercy |
| JOHN L. LEWIS |
| The Rights of Labor |
| WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE |
| Speaking for the Consumer |
| THOMAS E. DEWEY |
| Rendezvous with Despair |
| HERBERT HOOVER |
| The Bill of Rights |
| CHARLES EVANS HUGHES |
| Our Government |
| VIII. World Affairs and the Second World War |
| ANTHONY EDEN |
| A Firm Policy |
| NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN |
| The Munich Agreement |
| WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| "Blood Sweat and Tears" |
| Dunkirk |
| "Their Finest Hour" |
| The War on Russia |
| Address before the United States Congress |
| CLEMENT R. ATTLEE |
| The Atlantic Charter |
| W. L. MACKENZIE KING |
| Canada and the War |
| EDOUARD DALADIER |
| Nazis' Aim Is Slavery |
| PAUL REYNAUD |
| France Will Live Again! |
| HENRI PHILIPE PÉTAIN |
| "I Need Your Confidence!" |
| EAMON DE VALERA |
| Ireland Among the Nations |
| MAXIM LITVINOV |
| The League of Nations |
| HAILE SELASSIE |
| The Position of Ethiopia |
| FREDERICO LAREDO BRU |
| United Hemisphere Defense |
| ADOLF HITLER |
| Germany's Claims |
| No More Territorial Demands |
| German Conq |
| BENITO MUSSOLINI |
| A Call to Arms |
| Anniversary of Italy's Entry in the War |
| VYACHESLAV M. MOLOTOV |
| The Nazi War on Russia |
| JOSEPH STALIN |
| "Defend Every Inch of Soviet Soil!" |
| FUMIMARO KONOYE |
| The Triple Alliance |
| CHIANG KAI-SHEK |
| War Between Justice and Force |
| PRUS XII |
| Appeal for Peace |
| IX. The United States and the Second World War |
| FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT |
| First Inaugual Address |
| Hemisphere Defense for Democracy |
| "The Arsenal of Democracy" |
| Freedom of the Seas |
| For a Declaration of War Against Japan |
| American's Answer to Japan's Challenge |
| First War Address Before Congress |
| WENDALL L. WILLKIE |
| "Loyal Opposition" |
| American Liberty |
| CORDELL HULL |
| The Pillars of Enduring Peace |
| JAMES BRYANT CONANT |
| What are We Arming to Defend? |
| CHARLES A. LINDBERGH |
| An Independent Policy |
| HENRY L. STIMSON |
| A Grave Situation |
| HAROLD L. ICKES |
| What Constitutes an American |
| FRANK KNOX |
| We Must Fight for Our Liberties |
| FULTON J. SHEEN |
| The Cross and the Double Cross |
| DOROTHY THOMPSON |
| Hitler's Plans for Canada and the United States |
| HENRY A. WALLACE |
| America's Second Chance |
| NORMAN THOMAS |
| America and the War |
| PART III |
| GREAT SPEECHES OF THE MODERN PERIOD |
| X. United States Government |
| BERNARD MANNES BARUCH |
| Control of Atomic Weapons |
| HARRY S. TRUMAN |
| Inaugural Address |
| Powers of the President |
| DOUGLAS MACARTHUR |
| Old Soldiers Never Die |
| ADLAI EWING STEVENSON |
| Acceptance of Nomination |
| United States Far Eastern Policy |
| DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER |
| Inaugural Address |
| Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy |
| The Spirit of Geneva |
| EARL WARREN |
| A Home for American Jurisprudence |
| XI. International Affairs and the United Nations |
| WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| An Iron Curtain Has Descended |
| JAWAHARLAL NEHRU |
| Asia Finds Herself Again |
| A Glory Has Departed |
| OSWALDO ARANHA |
| A New Order Through the United States |
| PIERRE MENDÈS-FRANCE |
| The Search for International Cooper |
| DAG HAMMARSKJOLD |
| Values of Nationalism and Internationalism |
| NICKOLAI ALEKSANDROVICH BULGANIN |
| The Lessening of International Tension |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT |
| On Architecture |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN |
| Peace in the Atomic Age |
| WILLIAM FAULKNER |
| Acceptance of the Nobel Prize |
| DYLAN THOMAS |
| A Visit to America |
| ELEANOR ROOSEVELT |
| The United Nations as a Bridge |
| J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER |
| Prospect in the Arts and Sciences |
| WALTER PHILIP REUTHER |
| A Historical Agreement |
| ADLAI EWING STEVENSON |
| To the Graduating Class at Smith College |
| PART IV |
| INFORMAL SPEECHES |
| XII. Informal Speeches |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| The Memory of Burns |
| CHARLES DICKENS |
| English Friendship for America |
| JULIA WARD HOWE |
| A Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |
| After-Dinner Oratory |
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
| Dorothy Q |
| HENRY MORTON STANLEY |
| Through the Dark Continent |
| HENRY WARD BEECHER |
| Merchants and Ministers |
| CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW |
| Woman |
| JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE |
| The Bench and the Bar |
| GEORGE GRAHAM VEST |
| A Tribute to the Dog |
| HORACE PORTER |
| Woman! |
| THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY |
| Science and Art |
| CARL SCHURZ |
| The Old World and the |
| PART |