Speeches that Changed the World: History in the MakingPacked with historical figures, this text is as readable summary of 3000 years. From Moses's delivery of the Ten Commandments to Nelson Mandela's Let Freedom Reign, the world has been transformed by memorable speeches. |
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... America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion . I rejoice that America has resisted . Three million of people so dead to all feelings of liberty , as vol- untarily to submit to be slaves , would have been fit instruments to ...
... America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion . I rejoice that America has resisted . Three million of people so dead to all feelings of liberty , as vol- untarily to submit to be slaves , would have been fit instruments to ...
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... America . Would you had twenty ! Let acts of parliament in consequence of treaties remain , but let not an English ... America . It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with . In a good cause , on a sound bottom , the force of ...
... America . Would you had twenty ! Let acts of parliament in consequence of treaties remain , but let not an English ... America . It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with . In a good cause , on a sound bottom , the force of ...
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... America , brings me back , naturally and of course , to you . Coming back to you , and being thereby reminded of the pleasure we have in store in hear- ing the gentlemen who sit about me , I arrive by the easiest , though not by the ...
... America , brings me back , naturally and of course , to you . Coming back to you , and being thereby reminded of the pleasure we have in store in hear- ing the gentlemen who sit about me , I arrive by the easiest , though not by the ...
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Moses The Ten Commandments second millennium BC | 3 |
Socrates Socrates Apology 399 BC | 15 |
Jesus Christ The Beatitudes AD 34 | 29 |
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