Speeches that Changed the World: A fully revised and updated edition

by Simon S Monefiore

Overview

From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context.

With over a million copies already sold, this completely revised and updated pocket edition includes speeches by those that have truly shaped the modern world: from Greta Thunberg to Donald Trump, and from Nadia Murad to Oprah Winfrey. A biography of each speaker reveals how they came to stand at the crossroads of history, and each speech is accompanied by an introduction explaining its historical context and how it influenced the momentous events of the day - as well as those that followed.

By turns moving and thought-provoking, this new edition reveals a modern world in which freedom of speech remains a powerful agent of change - and gives unique perspectives on key turning points in history.

Contents include: Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr, Queen Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, George S. Patton, Jr, Malcolm X, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Gandhi and Winston Churchill to name a few.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529416053
Publisher:	Mobius
Publication date:	08/19/2021
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	120,944
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Simon S. Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and Marsh Biography Prizes. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (US), Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France) and the Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). He lives with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children in London

Table of Contents

Jesus of Nazareth 4

'Blessed are the poor in spirit'

The Prophet Mohammed 7

'Turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque'

Queen Elizabeth I 10

'I have the heart and stomach of a king'

King Charles I 13

'I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown'

Oliver Cromwell 17

'In the name of God, go!'

George Washington 20

'A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils'

Thomas Jefferson 26

'We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists'

Napoleon Bonaparte 32

'Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell'

Abraham Lincoln 35

'Government of the people, by the people, for the people'

Susan B. Anthony 38

'Are women persons?'

Emmeline Pankhurst 43

'I am here as a soldier'

Patrick Pearse 46

'Ireland unfree shall never be at peace'

Woodrow Wilson 50

'The world must be made safe for democracy'

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 54

'Power to the Soviets'

Clarence Darrow 59

'I believe in the law of love'

Mohandas K. Gandhi 62

'I have faith in the righteousness of our cause'

Franklin D. Roosevelt 67

'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' 'A date which will live in infamy'

Adolf Hitler 74

'My patience is now at an end'

'I am from now on just first soldier of the Reich'

Neville Chamberlain 81

'Peace for our time'

Joseph Stalin 84

'It is imperative that we agree to conclude the pact'

Winston Churchill 89

'Blood, toil, tears and sweat'

'We shall fight on the beaches'

'This was their finest hour'

'Never in the field of human conflict'

'An iron curtain has descended'

Charles de Gaulle 97

'The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die'

Vyacheslav Molotov 100

'Perfidy unparalleled in the history of civilized nations'

George S. Patton, Jr 104

'I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler'

Emperor Hirohito 108

'Enduring the unendurable'

J. Robert Oppenheimer 112

'We are not only scientists; we are men, too'

Jawaharlal Nehru 115

'At the stroke of the midnight hour… India will awake'

Douglas MacArthur 119

'I have just left your fighting sons in Korea'

Nikita Khrushchev 123

'The cult of the individual'

John F. Kennedy 128

'Ask not what your country can do for you' 'Ich bin ein Berliner'

Martin Luther King, Jr 136

'I have a dream'

'I've seen the promised land'

Nelson Mandela 144

'An ideal for which I am prepared to die' 'Free at last'

Malcolm X 150

'You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree'

Pierre Trudeau 154

'Who are the kidnap victims?'

Richard Nixon 159

'There can be no whitewash at the White House'

Indira Gandhi 165

'The special responsibility of the women of India'

Chaim Herzog 169

'Hate, ignorance and evil'

Anwar al-Sadat 173

'We accept to live with you in permanent peace'

Margaret Thatcher 178

'The lady's not for turning'

Pope John Paul II 184

'Our Polish freedom costs so much'

Ronald Reagan 188

'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'

Mikhail Gorbachev 193

'Freedom of choice is a universal principle'

Václav Havel 197

'We live in a contaminated moral environment'

Aung San Suu Kyi 201

'It is not power that corrupts, but fear'

Hillary Clinton 206

'Women's rights are human rights'

Earl Spencer 214

'The most hunted person of the modern age'

Elie Wiesel 218

'The perils of indifference'

George W. Bush 224

'Today, our nation saw evil'

Barack Obama 228

'The audacity of hope'

'America is a place where all things are possible'

Gerry Adams 237

'Our struggle has reached a defining moment'

Al Gore 241

'Political will is a renewable resource'

Kevin Rudd 246

'To the stolen generations … I am sorry'

Xi Jinping 250

'This great responsibility is the responsibility to the people'

Pope Francis 255

'Peace in the whole world, still divided by greed looking for easy gain'

Malala Yousafzai 259

'One pen and one book can change the world'

Vladimir Putin 264

'Crimea has always been an inseparable part of Russia.'

Nadia Murad 270

'This is not just about my suffering; it is about collective suffering.'

Donald J. Trump 274

'Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.'

Tarana Burke 278

'Enough is enough.'

Greta Thunberg 284

'Change is coming, whether you like it or not'