Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in HistoryWilliam Safire Rosetta Books, 2014 M04 22 - 1148 páginas 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). 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. Speeches in Lend Me Your Ears span a broad stretch of history, from Gen. 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. Gore decision that changed the landscape of American politics in our time. Editor 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. This book provides a wealth of valuable examples of great oratory for writers, speakers, and history aficionados. |
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... arms. And as a great mind stamps with its own impression the most common arts, so national greatness will show itself alike in the councils of policy, in the works of genius, in monuments of magnificence and deeds of glory. All these ...
... arms. And as a great mind stamps with its own impression the most common arts, so national greatness will show itself alike in the councils of policy, in the works of genius, in monuments of magnificence and deeds of glory. All these ...
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... arm grasping a bayoneted rifle , with the legend " Only Thus ” ; the point was that only through military uprising could Jews achieve their homeland . On May 14 , 1948 - Begin's " greatest day " -the less militant Jewish leaders in the ...
... arm grasping a bayoneted rifle , with the legend " Only Thus ” ; the point was that only through military uprising could Jews achieve their homeland . On May 14 , 1948 - Begin's " greatest day " -the less militant Jewish leaders in the ...
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... arm , with sufferings and with sacrifices . It could not have been otherwise . And yet , even before our state is able to set up its normal national institutions , it is compelled to fight — or to continue to fight satanic enemies and ...
... arm , with sufferings and with sacrifices . It could not have been otherwise . And yet , even before our state is able to set up its normal national institutions , it is compelled to fight — or to continue to fight satanic enemies and ...
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... arms - weapons of all sorts , in order to strike the enemies , in order to disperse the invaders , in order to free the entire length and breadth of the country from its would - be destroyers . But in addition to these arms , each and ...
... arms - weapons of all sorts , in order to strike the enemies , in order to disperse the invaders , in order to free the entire length and breadth of the country from its would - be destroyers . But in addition to these arms , each and ...
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... arms which decide the boundaries of the Hebrew state . So it is now in this battle ; so it will be in the future . Our God - given country is a unity . The attempt to dissect it is not only a crime but a blasphemy and an abortion ...
... arms which decide the boundaries of the Hebrew state . So it is now in this battle ; so it will be in the future . Our God - given country is a unity . The attempt to dissect it is not only a crime but a blasphemy and an abortion ...
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