The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches

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ISBN: 9780140232349 | 0140232346
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/1994

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Gathers speeches by modern leaders and writers, including Theodore Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Mario Cuomo, and Salman Rushdie

Introduction

xiii

Acknowledgements

xxiii

`The doctrine of the strenuous life' (1899)

(3)

Theodore Roosevelt

`I believe in a British Empire and I do not believe in a Little England' (1903)

(4)

Joseph Chamberlain

`The men with the muck-rakes' (1906)

(2)

Theodore Roosevelt

`The People's Budget' (1909)

(5)

David Lloyd George

`We are in for rough weather' (1909)

(2)

David Lloyd George

`With the new age, we shall show a new spirit' (1910)

(3)

Woodrow Wilson

`The new nationalism' (1910)

(3)

Theodore Roosevelt

`This last fight for human freedom' (1912)

(3)

Emmeline Pankhurst

`Ulster is asking to be let alone' (1914)

(2)

Edward Carson

`The sunshine of Socialism' (1914)

(3)

Keir Hardie

`The great pinnacle of sacrifice' (1914)

(6)

David Lloyd George

`You have not seen the last of me' (1914)

(1)

Benito Mussolini

`There are women who never thought to envy men their manhood' (1914)

(2)

Emmeline Pankhurst

`Ireland unfree shall never be at peace' (1915)

(3)

Patrick Pearse

`There is no salvation for India' (1916)

(3)

Mahatma Gandhi

`Ireland summons her children to the flag' (1916)

(2)

Proclamation of the Irish Republic

`In Ireland alone, in this twentieth century, is loyalty held to be a crime' (1916)

(7)

Roger Casement

`The world must be made sale for democracy' (1917)

(3)

Woodrow Wilson

`A new phase in the history of Russia begins' (1917)

(3)

V.I. Lenin

`We need an army' (1918)

(4)

Leon Trotsky

`While there is a lower class, I am in it' (1918)

(3)

Eugene V. Debs

`A fit country for heroes to live in' (1918)

(3)

David Lloyd George

`American I was born' (1919)

(3)

Henry Cabot Lodge

`Man will see the truth' (1919)

(3)

Woodrow Wilson

`A man as low and mean as I can picture' (1919)

(2)

Alfred E. Smith

`The eyes of the whole Empire are on Ireland today' (1921)

(3)

George V

`Non-violence is the first article of my faith' (1922)

(5)

Mahatma Gandhi

`A message to every land where the Jewish race is scattered' (1922)

(3)

A. J. Balfour

`The sounds of England' (1924)

(3)

Stanley Baldwin

`The life of the Negro race has been a life of tragedy' (1926)

(4)

Clarence Darrow

`I am never be guilty, never' (1927)

(3)

Nicola Sacco

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

`Rugged individualism' (1928)

100

(4)

Herbert Hoover

`The nation has to be mobilized' (1930)

104

(3)

Oswald Mosley

`We are not on trial' (1930)

107

(2)

Ramsay MacDonald

`Either we do it--or they crush us' (1931)

109

(3)

Joseph Stalin

`An indomitable aggressive spirit' (1932)

112

(8)

Adolf Hitler

`The bomber will always get through' (1932)

120

(4)

Stanley Baldwin

`The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' (1933)

124

(5)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

`The supreme justiciar of the German people' (1934)

129

(3)

Adolf Hitler

`Italy! Italy! Entirely and universally Fascist!' (1935)

132

(3)

Benito Mussolini

`England again dares to be great' (1935)

135

(1)

Oswald Mosley

`The forces of selfishness and lust for power met their match' (1936)

136

(3)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

`The locust years' (1936)

139

(2)

Winston Churchill

`I shall always trust the instincts of our democratic people' (1936)

141

(2)

Stanley Baldwin

`The Jews carry Palestine in their hearts' (1936)

143

(7)

Chaim Weizmann

`I have determined to renounce the Throne' (1936)

150

(2)

Edward VIII

`The House today is a theatre which is being watched by the whole world' (1936)

152

(3)

Stanley Baldwin

`God Save the King' (1936)

155

(2)

Edward VIII

`I stake my life' (1937)

157

(5)

Leon Trotsky

`The oppression is growing' (1937)

162

(2)

Martin Niemoller

`My patience is now at an end' (1938)

164

(4)

Adolf Hitler

`Peace for our time' (1938)

168

(1)

Neville Chamberlain

`A total and unmitigated defeat' (1938)

169

(3)

Winston Churchill

`Is this an attempt to dominate the world by force?' (1939)

172

(4)

Neville Chamberlain

`This country is at war with Germany' (1939)

176

(2)

Neville Chamberlain

`In the name of God, go' (1940)

178

(3)

Leo Amery

`Sacrifice the seals of office' (1940)

181

(4)

David Lloyd George

`I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat' (1940)

185

(1)

Winston Churchill

`Be ye men of valour' (1940)

186

(2)

Winston Churchill

`This was their finest hour' (1940)

188

(1)

Winston Churchill

`The flame of French resistance' (1940)

189

(3)

Charles de Gaulle

`This little steamer' (1940)

192

(2)

J. B. Priestley

`The arsenal of democracy' (1940)

194

(3)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

`The four freedoms' (1941)

197

(4)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

`A grave danger hangs over our country' (1941)

201

(3)

Joseph Stalin

`The final solution' (1942)

204

(3)

Reinhard Heydrich

`Give me your children' (1942)

207

(4)

Chaim Rumkowski

`We will stand and fight here' (1942)

211

(4)

General Bernard Montgomery

`The vision of such an Ireland' (1943)

215

(3)

Eamon de Valera

`That son of a bitch Patton again' (1943--4)

218

(2)

General George Patton

`Obliteration is not a justifiable act of war' (1944)

220

(4)

Bishop Bell

`Our deep moral dependence' (1945)

224

(5)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The `iron curtain' (1946)

229

(3)

Winston Churchill

`Our policy is directed against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos' (1947)

232

(2)

George Marshall

`The noble mansion of free India' (1947)

234

(3)

Jawaharlal Nehru

`The light has gone out of our lives' (1948)

237

(2)

Jawaharlal Nehru

`I have in my hand...' (1950)

239

(4)

Joseph McCarthy

`The agony and the sweat' (1950)

243

(1)

William Faulkner

`There is only one hope for mankind' (1951)

244

(4)

Aneurin Bevan

`Let's talk sense to the American people' (1952)

248

(2)

Adlai Stevenson

`A theft from those who hunger' (1953)

250

(3)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

`The motion of destiny (1953)

253

(5)

Kwame Nkrumah

`History will absolve me' (1953)

258

(5)

Fidel Castro

`Shall we choose death?' (1954)

263

(3)

Bertrand Rusell

`There comes a time when people get tired' (1955)

266

(3)

Martin Luther King

`We must abolish the cult of the individual' (1956)

269

(7)

Nikita Khrushchev

`We have to act up to different standards' (1956)

276

(2)

Aneurin Bevan

`Naked into the conference chamber' (1957)

278

(2)

Aneurin Bevan

`We have now come to a fateful hour' (1959)

280

(4)

Hendrik Verwoerd

`An ugly society, a vulgar society, a meretricious society' (1959)

284

(4)

Aneurin Bevan

`The wind of change' (1960)

288

(5)

Harold Macmillan

`Do not reject this man' (1960)

293

(4)

Eugene McCarthy

`A new frontier' (1960)

297

(3)

John F. Kennedy

`The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans' (1961)

300

(4)

John F. Kennedy

`That man was Eichmann' (1961)

304

(7)

Gideon Hausner

`We will fight, fight and fight again' (1961)

311

(2)

Hugh Gaitskell

`The brotherhood of man' (1961)

313

(3)

Iain Macleod

`Duty--Honor--Country' (1962)

316

(6)

Douglas MacArthur

`The end of a thousand years of history' (1962)

322

(3)

Hugh Gaitskell

`Ich bin ein Berliner' (1963)

325

(2)

John F. Kennedy

`Never glad confident morning again' (1963)

327

(3)

Nigel Birch

`I have a dream' (1963)

330

(6)

Martin Luther King

`The white heat of technology' (1963)

336

(2)

Harold Wilson

`Let us continue' (1963)

338

(3)

Lyndon B. Johnson

`An ideal for which I am prepared to die' (1964)

341

(4)

Nelson Mandela

`The Great Society' (1964)

345

(3)

Lyndon B. Johnson

`Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice' (1964)

348

(4)

Barry Goldwater

`A time for choosing' (1964)

352

(2)

Ronald Reagan

`We shall overcome' (1965)

354

(5)

Lyndon B. Johnson

`Our generation has a dream' (1965)

359

(3)

Lyndon B. Johnson

`This is the goal' (1966)

362

(4)

Roy Jenkins

`A tiny ripple of hope' (1966)

366

(7)

Robert Kennedy

`I shall not seek nor will I accept nomination as your president' (1968)

373

(3)

Lyndon B. Johnson

`I seem to see ``the River Tiber foaming with much blood''' (1968)

376

(8)

Enoch Powell

`The time has come for an honest government' (1968)

384

(4)

Richard Nixon

`A woman's civil right' (1969)

388

(4)

Betty Friedan

`Millions will rejoice' (1971)

392

(3)

Edward Heath

`A press which is half free' (1974)

395

(5)

Harold Evans

`Au revoir' (1974)

400

(2)

Richard Nixon

`Let me give you my vision' (1975)

402

(3)

Margaret Thatcher

`The red flame of Socialist courage' (1975)

405

(4)

Michael Foot

`What is the joy about?' (1978)

409

(3)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

`I have promised nobody' (1978)

412

(2)

James Callaghan

`Home Thoughts from Abroad' (1979)

414

(5)

Roy Jenkins

`The dream shall never die' (1980)

419

(2)

Edward Kennedy

`We are reaping the whirlwind of all our yesterdays' (1981)

421

(3)

Michael Heseltine

`The Falklands Factor' (1982)

424

(2)

Margaret Thatcher

`Our neighbours are indeed like us' (1982)

426

(3)

Robert Runcie

`I warn you' (1983)

429

(2)

Neil Kinnock

`We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing' (1983)

431

(3)

Pope John Paul II

`The great she-elephant, she who must be obeyed' (1984)

434

(2)

Denis Healey

`A monstrous carbuncle' (1984)

436

(3)

Prince Charles

`Let us make a vow to the dead' (1984)

439

(2)

Ronald Reagan

`Make this nation remember how futures are built' (1984)

441

(7)

Mario Cuomo

`The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted' (1986)

448

(2)

Ronald Reagan

`Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?' (1987)

450

(4)

Neil Kinnock

`We are fighting for the survival of our culture' (1987)

454

(5)

Arthur Scargill

`Now is the time' (1988)

459

(1)

Edward Kennedy

`The frontiers of the State' (1988)

460

(4)

Margaret Thatcher

`A contaminated moral environment' (1990)

464

(4)

Vaclav Havel

`Our march to freedom is irreversible' (1990)

468

(3)

Nelson Mandela

`A conflict of loyalty' (1990)

471

(3)

Sir Geoffrey Howe

`I cannot hand away powers lent to me' (1991)

474

(4)

Tony Benn

`What is my single life worth?' (1991)

478

Salman Rushdie

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