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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... true source and principle of national greatness. It is in the national spirit. It is in that high, haughty, generous, and noble spirit which prizes glory more than wealth and holds honor dearer than life. It is that spirit, the inspiring.
... true source and principle of national greatness. It is in the national spirit. It is in that high, haughty, generous, and noble spirit which prizes glory more than wealth and holds honor dearer than life. It is that spirit, the inspiring.
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... true spirit of union and harmony. In pursuing the great objects which our condition points out to us, let us act under a settled conviction, and a habitual feeling that these twenty-four states are one country. Let our conceptions be ...
... true spirit of union and harmony. In pursuing the great objects which our condition points out to us, let us act under a settled conviction, and a habitual feeling that these twenty-four states are one country. Let our conceptions be ...
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... over the forty - five states , and - really , now , this is true - I know about it myself - twenty - four hours after that it was raining buttons, recognizable as his, on the Atlantic Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July.
... over the forty - five states , and - really , now , this is true - I know about it myself - twenty - four hours after that it was raining buttons, recognizable as his, on the Atlantic Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July.
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... true than in this exposition of limited government by a man who limited what he had to say to what he thought strictly necessary . *** I THANK YOU - With gratitude for the high honor given , with appreciation for the solemn obligations ...
... true than in this exposition of limited government by a man who limited what he had to say to what he thought strictly necessary . *** I THANK YOU - With gratitude for the high honor given , with appreciation for the solemn obligations ...
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... true independence . One phase of the battle for freedom , for the return of the whole people of Israel to its homeland , for the restoration of the whole land of Israel to its God - covenanted owners , has ended . But only one phase ...
... true independence . One phase of the battle for freedom , for the return of the whole people of Israel to its homeland , for the restoration of the whole land of Israel to its God - covenanted owners , has ended . But only one phase ...
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