100 Speeches That Changed the World

by Colin Salter

Overview

The history of the world as witnessed through the most inspiring, rousing, and memorable speeches ever given.

Throughout history, passionate orators have rallied nations, challenged accepted beliefs, and changed the course of history. Colin Salter has identified one-hundred of history's most inspirational, momentous, and thought-provoking speeches from ancient Rome and Athens to the 21st century and puts them into context, telling the stories behind the words that made history.
A celebration of the power of spoken rhetoric at its finest, this book profiles the words of the world's greatest public speakers. The speeches covered span the spectrum from stirring calls to arms to impassioned pleas for peace, along with speeches that marked major historical events such as the abolition of slavery, women achieving the right to vote, and the expansion of civil rights. Each speech features a concise introduction along with detailed analysis accompanied by key illustrations and photographs.
Highlighted speeches include: Elizabeth I's speech in preparation of the Spanish Armada (1588), Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" (1851), Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863), Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself" (1933), Winston Churchill, "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (1940), Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" (1963), Harvey Milk's "Hope Speech" (1978), Margaret Thatcher's "The Lady's not for Turning" (1980), Nelson Mandela on his release from prison (1990), among many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789339973
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	710,670
Product dimensions:	7.63(w) x 9.41(h) x 0.92(d)

About the Author

Colin Salter is the co-author of Everything You Need to Know About Everything You Need to Know About Inventions. He is a history and science writer with a fascination for how things work, and how they used to work. He has written about everything, including the private lives of marine gastropods. His contributions to Chambers' Biographical Dictionary include the entries for 500 living scientists.

Table of Contents

Introduction 10

c. 399 BC Socrates: "I know that I know nothing" 14

c. 326 BC Alexander The Great: Speech by the Hydaspes River 16

63 BC Cicero: "O temporal O mores!" 18

c.31 AD Jesus Christ: Sermon on the Mount 20

1305 William Wallace: "I have slain the English" 22

1588 Elizabeth I: "I have the heart and stomach or a king" 24

1649 Charles I: Execution speech 26

1775 Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" 28

1789 William Wilberforce: Abolition of slavery speech 30

1794 Maximilien Robespierre: Justification for the "reign of terror" 32

1796 George Washington: Farewell Address 34

1829 Andrew Jackson: Speech to Congress on "Indian removal" 36

1851 Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a woman?" 38

1852 Frederick Douglass: "What to the slave is the 4^th of July?" 40

1860 Thomas Henry Huxley: Oxford evolution debate 42

1861 Alexander Stephens: Cornerstone speech, justifying the confederacy 44

1863 Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address 46

1865 Abraham Lincoln: Second inaugural Address 48

1877 Chief Joseph: Surrender speech 50

1895 Oscar Wilde: "The love that dare not speak its name" 52

1901 Mark Twain: Votes for Women 54

1913 Emmeline Pankhurst: "Freedom or Death" speech 56

1915 Patrick Pearse: "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" 58

1917 Vladirnir Lenin: "Power to the Soviets" speech 60

1918 Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points 62

1931 Mahatma Gandhi: "My Spiritual Message" 64

1933 Adolf Hitler: First speech as chancellor of Germany 66

1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself 68

1936 Edward VIII: Abdication speech 70

1938 Neville Chamberlain: "Peace for our time" 72

1939 Lou Gehrig: "The luckiest man on the face of this earth" 74

1939 Adolf Hitler: Obersalzberg speech 76

1939 George VI: Declaration of war against Germany 78

1939 Charles Lindbergh: Urging the US to stay neutral in WWII 80

1940 Winston Churchill: "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" 82

1940 Winston Churchill: 'We shall fight on the beaches" 84

1940 Winston Churchill: "This was their finest hour" 86

1940 General de Gaulle: Appeal of June 18 88

1941 Vyacheslav Molotov: Radio speech on Nazi invasion 90

1941 Franklin D Roosevelt: "A date which will live in infamy" 92

1944 Dwight D. Eisenhower: Announcing the Allies had landed in France 94

1946 Emperor Hirohito: Denouncing divine status 96

1946 Winston Churchill: "An iron curtain has descended" 98

1946 Albert Speer: Nuremberg Trial Testimony 100

1947 Jawaharlal Nehru: "Tryst with Destiny" 102

1948 David Ben-Gurion: Israeli Declaration of Independence 104

1948 Aneurin Bevan: Speech on the founding of the NHS 106

1949 Chairman Mao Zedong: "The Chinese people have stood up!" 108

1951 Eva Perón: Speech to the descamisados 110

1953 Queen Elizabeth II: Coronation speech 112

1954 Earl Warren: Racial segregation US schools ruling 114

1956 Nikita Khruschev: "Cult of the individual" 116

1960 Harold Macmillan: "The wind of change is blowing through this comment" 118

1960 Elvis Presley: "Home from the Army" press conference 120

1960 Fidel Castro: United Nations' speech 122

1960 Mervyn Griffith-Jones: Lady Chatterley's Lover Obscenity Trial 124

1961 John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Addict 126

1962 John F. Kennedy: "We choose to go to the moon" 128

1963 John F. Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner" 130

1963 Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream" 132

1963 Harold Wilson: The White Heat of Technology 134

1964 Muhammad Ali: "I am the greatest!" 136

1964 Malcolm X: "The Ballot or the Bullet" 138

1964 Nelson Mandela: "An ideal for which I am prepared to die" 140

1906 John Lennon: "We're more popular than Jesus" apology 142

1967 Timothy Leary: "Turn on, tune in, drop out" 144

1967 Earl Warren: Loving vs. Virginia 146

1967 Eugene McCarthy: Denouncing the Vietnam War 148

1968 Martin Luther King Jr.: "I've been to the mountaintop" 150

1968 Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood 152

1969 Neil Armstrong: "One giant leap for mankind" 154

1969 Max B. Yasgur: "This is America and the are going to have their festival" 156

1970 Betty Friedan: Strike for Equality 158

1971 John Kerry: Vietnam Veterans Against the War 160

1973 Harry Blackmun: Roe vs. Wade 162

1974 Richard Nixon: Announcement of Resignation 164

1978 Harvey Milk: "You have to give people hope" 166

1980 Margaret Thatcher: "The lady's not for turning" 168

1987 Ronald Reagan: "Tear down this wall!" 170

1990 Nelson Mandela: "We have waited too long for our freedom" 172

1991 Mikhail S. Gorbachev: Farewell Address 174

1993 Maya Angelou: "On the Pulse of Morning" 176

1997 Chris Patten: "A very Chinese city with British characteristics" 178

1997 Earl Spencer: "The most hunted person of the modern age" 180

1998 Bill Clinton: "I have sinned" 182

1998 Tony Blair: Address to Irish Parliament 184

2001 George W. Bush: Address to the Nation 186

2004 Osama bin Laden: Address to the United States 188

2004 Barack Obama: Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention 190

2007 Steve Jobs: "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone" 192

2007 Bill Gates: Commencement Address at Harvard 194

2008 Barack Obama: "Yes, We Can!" 196

2013 Malala Yousafzai: "The right of education for every child" 198

2016 "Emily Doe": Stanford 'Rape Trial statement to court 200

2016 Stephen Hawking: Exploring the impact of Artificial intelligence 202

2017 Ashley Judd: "I am a nasty woman" 204

2017 Mark Zuckerberg: Commencement Address at Harvard 206

2017 James Comey: Senate Testimony 208

2017 Elon Musk: Becoming a Multiplanet Species 210

2018 Oprah Winfrey: "Their times is up" 212