The World's Great Speeches

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Courier Corporation, Sep 21, 1999 - History - 920 pages
Nearly 300 speeches offer provocative themes, historic parallels, and memorable quotations: Socrates, Julius Caesar, St. Francis, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fulton J. Sheen, Barbara Jordan, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Earl of Spencer, and many others. Includes 7 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940," "Farewell Address," "Gettysburg Address," "I Have a Dream," "Second Inaugural Address," "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention," and "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."

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III
62
IV
146
V
226
VI
378
VII
386
VIII
403
XIV
583
XV
585
XVI
612
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647
XIX
649
XX
733
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735
XXII
776

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XII
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XIII
508
XXIII
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XXIV
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