The Penguin Book of Historic SpeechesBrian MacArthur A companion volume to The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, this collection of great oratory stretches across the history of powerful and moving, but most of all, memorable speeches, from classical times to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. |
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Page 209
... nations ; cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free , enlightened , and , at no distant period , a great nation ...
... nations ; cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free , enlightened , and , at no distant period , a great nation ...
Page 210
... nation for another produces a variety of evils . Sympathy for the favorite nation facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists , and infusing into one the enmities of the other ...
... nation for another produces a variety of evils . Sympathy for the favorite nation facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists , and infusing into one the enmities of the other ...
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... nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question , without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth ; and upon that issue we expect to carry every state in the Union . I shall not slander the ...
... nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question , without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth ; and upon that issue we expect to carry every state in the Union . I shall not slander the ...
Contents
Moses Thou shalt not c 1250 BC | 3 |
Jesus of Nazareth Blessed are the poor in spirit c 33 | 23 |
John Ball Cast off the yoke of bondage 1381 | 37 |
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